Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

REAL PROPERTY (CONVERSION OF TITLES) ACT 1967

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Real Property (Conversion of Titles) Act 1967.1 and 2  
   4.      (1) In this Act,  

   PART II--BRINGING LAND UNDER THE REAL PROPERTY ACT1

   5.      (1) The Registrar-General shall bring under the Principal Act all land alienated from the Crown but not yet brought under the Principal Act and in respect of which application might be made under Part V of the Principal Act to bring the land under that Act.  
   6.      (1) Before proceeding to bring land under the Principal Act in pursuance of this Act, the Registrar-General shall cause a notice of his intention so to proceed to be published in the Gazette and in such newspapers as he thinks fit, and shall specify in the notice a date, being a date not less than one month nor more than twelve months from the date of publication of the notice in the Gazette, after which the Registrar-General intends so to proceed.  
   7.      (1) The Registrar-General may, by notice in writing served personally or by registered post, require a person—  
   8.      (1) Where, in pursuance of this Act, the Registrar-General proposes to bring land under the Principal Act, the Registrar-General shall sign a certificate of title for the land in the name of the person appearing to him to be entitled to be registered as the proprietor of the land and, subject to subsection (3) of the last preceding section, deliver the certificate to the person entitled to receive it.  
   9.      (1) If, in respect of land that the Registrar-General proposes to bring under the Principal Act in pursuance of this Act, the Registrar-General is satisfied that—  
   10.     (1) If, in respect of any land that the Registrar-General proposes to bring under the Principal Act in pursuance of this Act, the Registrar-General is not satisfied as provided in subsection (1) of the last preceding section, the certificate of title for the land shall be a limited certificate of title in accordance with the form in the Schedule to this Act.  
   11.     (1) Before signing a limited certificate for land, the Registrar-General shall file with his records a minute signed by him specifying—  
   12.     (1) A Registrar-General's minute does not form part of the Register.  
   13.     (1) Subject to this Act, the provisions of the Principal Act relating to certificates of title and to land comprised in certificates of title apply, so far as they are capable of application, to limited certificates and to the land comprised in those certificates and to the registration of instruments and other matters affecting limited certificates.  
   14.     Where a Registrar-General's minute specifies the existence, or the probable or possible existence, of a registrable estate or interest in land, a dealing with that estate or interest is not capable of being registered until the estate or interest in land is registered.  
   15.     The registered title to an estate or interest less than freehold as evidenced by a limited certificate or by a memorial written or endorsed on that certificate shall be deemed to be limited to the same extent as the certificate.  
   16.     The Registrar-General shall not issue a new certificate of title, not being a limited certificate, in substitution for a limited certificate except as provided in this Act or, if the new certificate is issued in respect of part of the land comprised in the limited certificate, unless the matters in respect of which the limited certificate is limited do not affect or relate to that part of the land.  
   17.     (1) Where the Registrar-General is satisfied—  
   18.     (1) A person who claims an estate of freehold in the land or part of the land comprised in a limited certificate—  
   19.     (1) Where the certificate of title to land is limited as to title but not as to description of land, the Registrar-General shall, twelve years after the first signing of a limited certificate for the land, inquire whether a person is in possession of the land or part of the land adversely to the title of the registered proprietor named in the limited certificate.  
   20.     Where a certificate of title is issued in pursuance of this Act in the name of trustees who do not have express power to sell the land comprised in the certificate, the Registrar-General shall enter a caveat as provided for in subsection (3) of section 124 of the Principal Act for the protection of the interests of persons beneficially interested under the trust.  
   21.     The Registrar-General may, upon such information as he deems sufficient, amend the description of land in, or the plan upon, a certificate of title limited as to description of land, but not so as to exclude from the description land of which the proprietor named in the certificate is in possession and to which he is entitled for the estate or interest evidenced by the certificate.  

   PART III--MISCELLANEOUS

   22.     (1) Part XVI of the  
   23.     An instrument that is not in accordance with a form prescribed by the Principal Act may be registered under the Principal Act if—  
   24.     Fees are not payable in respect of the bringing of land under the Principal Act in pursuance of this Act.  
   25.     (1) A photographic copy of the registration copy of an original instrument registered in the office of the Registrar-General for New South Wales is, if certified to be such a photographic copy by a Deputy Registrar-General of that State, evidence of the contents of the registration copy.  
   26.     The Executive may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.  
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