TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 182
TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 182
182 . Orders vesting trust estate
(1) Whenever any
person interested in land under the operations of this Act or any estate or
interest therein shall appear to the Supreme Court or to the Commissioner to
be a trustee of such land estate or interest within the intent and meaning of
any Act now or hereafter to be in force relating to trusts and trustees and
any vesting order shall be made in the premises by the said court or by the
Commissioner (which order he is hereby empowered to make concurrently with the
said court) the Registrar on being served with such order or an office copy
thereof shall enter on the certificate of title the date of the order, the
time of its production to the Registrar and the name and address of the person
in whom the order purports to vest the land, estate or interest.
[(a), (b) deleted]
(1a) Upon such entry
on the certificate of title such person shall become the transferee and be
deemed to be the proprietor of the land, estate or interest.
(1b) Unless and until
such entry on the certificate of title has been made the order has no effect
or operation in transferring or otherwise vesting the land, estate or
interest.
(2) The provisions of
this section apply to any estate or interest in land which stands registered
in the name of any deceased person who was at the time of his death a trustee
thereof.
[Section 182 amended: No. 17 of 1950 s. 46; No. 81
of 1996 s. 145(1) and 146(1); No. 6 of 2003 s. 69; No. 21 of 2022 s. 37.]