Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Any person claiming
any estate or interest in the land described in the advertisement may in
person or by agent before the registration of the certificate lodge a caveat
with the Registrar in an approved form forbidding the bringing of such land
under this Act. Every such caveat shall be signed by the caveator or by his
agent and shall particularise the estate or interest claimed; and the
Registrar may by notice require any person lodging such caveat to support the
same by a statutory declaration within 7 days after the service of such
notice stating the nature of the title under which the claim is made and also
to deliver a perfect abstract of the title to such estate or interest. Unless
such declaration be lodged within the time aforesaid the caveat shall lapse. A
caveat under this section cannot be lodged unless it contains an address, or a
number for a facsimile machine, in Australia for the service of notices in
relation to the caveat.
[Section 30 amended by No. 81 of 1996
s. 15.]