TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 223
TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 223
223 . Application under s. 222, how dealt with
(1) Such application
with the papers shall be submitted to the Commissioner who may either reject
such application altogether or direct notice thereof to be published once at
least in a newspaper published in the city of Perth or circulating in the
neighbourhood of the land and to be served on any persons named by him and
such further publicity to be given as he shall think fit; and the Commissioner
shall in such notice appoint a time not less than 14 days nor more than 12
calendar months from such notice or from the advertisement or the first of
such advertisements (if more than one) on or after the expiration of which the
Registrar shall unless a caveat shall be lodged forbidding the same register
such applicant as the proprietor of such land by endorsing on the registered
certificate in the Register the particulars of the title under which such
applicant claims and registering in his name a certificate of title to the
land.
(2) Upon such registry
being effected the applicant shall become the transferee of such land and be
deemed to be the proprietor thereof.
[Section 223 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 81
of 1996 s. 145(1); No. 19 of 2010 s. 51.]