Queensland Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND REGISTER ACT 1988 - SECT 52

52 Application of s 20 to particular persons

(1) This section applies if—

(a) immediately before the commencement, the legal estate of an interest in land was recorded in the records of a registering authority in the name of a person who was not a foreign person under the unamended Act; and

(b) on the commencement, the person is a foreign person in relation to the interest.

(2) Section 20 applies to the person as if a reference in section 20(2) to the day on which the person becomes a foreign person were a reference to the day on which the person becomes aware the person is a foreign person under the amended Act.