New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 138A

138A Registrar-General may take steps to rectify Register in case of fraud

(1) The Registrar-General may, in relation to the settlement of a claim in accordance with section 135, take any of the steps set out in subsection (2) that are required to rectify the Register (including by registering a person as proprietor of land) if the Registrar-General is satisfied that--

(a) the person has been deprived of land, or an estate or interest in land, as a result of fraud, and

(b) the current registered proprietor acquired the estate or interest in land through fraud.

(2) The Registrar-General may do one or more of the following--

(a) cancel or amend a folio of the Register,

(b) cancel, amend or make a recording in a folio of the Register,

(c) create a new folio of the Register,

(d) create a new edition of a computer folio,