TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 192

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 192

192 .         Defective documents, rejection of

        (1)         Whenever any instrument caveat surrender discharge of encumbrance court order or other document lodged for registration or in relation to any land title estate or interest or in connection with any application or dealing is erroneous or defective the Registrar may require the correction and re-execution or correction only (as the case may require) of such document to be made or procured by the person lodging the same; and if such error or defect is not duly amended within the time allowed by the Registrar, after notice of the error or defect and the time so allowed has been given to the person, the Registrar may if he thinks fit reject such document and notify such rejection to the person lodging the document.

        (2)         If the Registrar rejects a document under subsection (1) —

            (a)         the Registrar shall retain from the fees paid on the lodging of the document such amount as is prescribed by the regulations (the prescribed amount ); and

            (b)         the prescribed amount shall be forfeited and dealt with under section 190; and

            (c)         the amount being the difference between the fees paid on the lodging of the document and the prescribed amount may be returned to the person lodging the document when the document is withdrawn from lodgment.

        [Section 192 amended: No. 28 of 1969 s. 8; No. 6 of 2003 s. 74; No. 59 of 2004 s. 140; No. 2 of 2014 s. 83.]