Western Australian Consolidated Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 3

3 .         Laws inconsistent not to apply to land under this Act

        (1)         All laws statutes Acts Ordinances rules regulations and practice whatsoever so far as inconsistent with this Act shall not apply or be deemed to apply to land whether Crown, freehold or leasehold which shall be under the operation of this Act.

        (2)         This Act does not —

            (a)         apply to the registration of rights over land in respect of minerals, petroleum, geothermal energy or geothermal energy resources; or

            (b)         prevent or otherwise affect the system of registration under other Acts of mining, petroleum or geothermal energy rights in respect of land whether Crown, freehold or leasehold.

        (3)         In subsection (2) —

        geothermal energy and geothermal energy resources have the same meanings as they have in the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967 ;

        mining, petroleum or geothermal energy rights has the same meaning as it has in the Land Administration Act 1997 .

        [Section 3 amended by No. 31 of 1997 s. 88; No. 28 of 2003 s. 129(2); No. 35 of 2007 s. 106.]