New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONVEYANCING ACT 1919 - SECT 19A

19A Estates tail--further provisions

(1) Where at or after the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one any person is entitled, or would, but for section 19, be entitled, to an estate tail (legal or equitable) and whether in possession, reversion, or remainder, in any land, such person shall be deemed to be entitled to an estate in fee simple (legal or equitable, as the case may be) in such land, to the exclusion of all estates or interests limited to take effect after the determination or in defeasance of any such estate tail and to the exclusion of all estates or interests in reversion on any such estate tail.

(2) In this section the expression
"estate tail" includes that estate in fee into which an estate tail is converted where the issue in tail are barred, but persons claiming estates by way of remainder or otherwise are not barred also an estate in fee voidable or determinable by the entry of the issue in tail; but does not include the estate of a tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct.

(3) This section applies to land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900 , and the Registrar-General is hereby authorised on application in the form approved under that Act to make all such recordings in the Register kept under that Act as may be necessary to give effect thereto.