TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 55

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 55

55 .         Trusts

        (1)         The Registrar shall not enter on a certificate of title notice of any trusts other than those set out in the body of the original Crown grant or certificate of title or contained or referred to in the transfer, or the ministerial order for the conveyance, of the relevant Crown land into the fee simple.

        (2)         Where a trust is declared in any other document and the document or a copy of it has been deposited with the Registrar, the Registrar may cause the document or copy to be kept for safe custody and reference but shall not register the document.

        (3)         The Commissioner may protect, in any manner he thinks fit, the rights of the persons for the time being beneficially interested in, or required to give consent under, a trust a record of which is kept under subsection (2).

        (4)         The rights incidental to any proprietorship, instrument, dealing or matter registered under this Act shall not be affected by the keeping of a record of a trust under subsection (2).

        [Section 55 inserted: No. 81 of 1996 s. 29; amended: No. 31 of 1997 s. 96; No. 6 of 2003 s. 19.]