TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 53
TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 53
53 . Priority of registration of instruments
(1) The Registrar
shall register an instrument presented for registration in the order, and from
the time, of its presentation.
(2) Instruments
purporting to affect the same estate or interest have priority as between each
other according to the time of registration and not according to the date of
the instrument, notwithstanding any actual or constructive notice.
[Section 53 inserted: No. 81 of 1996 s. 27.]