Western Australian Consolidated Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 74B

74B .         Issue of subsequent duplicate certificates of title

        (1)         Where a duplicate certificate of title has been issued and —

            (a)         the duplicate has been destroyed by, or in circumstances known to, the Registrar; and

            (b)         the proprietor of the land that is the subject of the certificate of title requests, in an approved form, that a new duplicate certificate of title be issued without cancellation of the certificate of title,

                then the Registrar may cause a new duplicate certificate of title to be issued to the proprietor or to a person named and authorised by the proprietor as the person to whom the duplicate may be issued.

        (2)         If, in the case of a digital title —

            (a)         a duplicate certificate of title has been issued and is later cancelled; and

            (b)         the cancelled duplicate certificate of title has been produced to the Registrar,

                the Registrar may cause a new edition of the duplicate certificate of title to be issued to the proprietor of the land that is the subject of the digital title or to a person named and authorised by the proprietor as the person to whom the duplicate may be issued.

        [Section 74B inserted by No. 81 of 1996 s. 47; amended by No. 6 of 2003 s. 26.]