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LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1936 - NOTES

Legislative history

Notes

• Amendments of this version that are uncommenced are not incorporated into the text.

• Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.

• Earlier versions of this Act (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.

• For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.

Principal Act and amendments

New entries appear in bold.

Year

No

Title

Assent

Commencement

1936

2328

Law of Property Act 1936

3.12.1936

1.11.1937 (Gazette 25.3.1937 p646)

1945

18

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1945

6.12.1945

6.12.1945

1956

16

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1956

8.11.1956

8.11.1956

1958

14

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1958

23.10.1958

23.10.1958

1960

12

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1960

18.8.1960

18.8.1960

1966

44

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1966

22.9.1966

22.9.1966

1969

57

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1969

4.12.1969

21.5.1970 (Gazette 21.5.1970 p1841)

1969

77

Law of Property Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1969

11.12.1969

31.8.1970 (Gazette 20.8.1970 p696)

1971

15

Age of Majority (Reduction) Act 1971

8.4.1971

15.4.1971 (Gazette 15.4.1971 p1598)

1972

2

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1972

16.3.1972

1.11.1973 (Gazette 6.9.1973 p1899)

1972

19

Statutes Amendment (Law of Property and Wrongs) Act 1972

30.3.1972

18.5.1972 (Gazette 18.5.1972 p1926)

1972

138

Law of Property Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1972

7.12.1972

1.11.1973 (Gazette 6.9.1973 p1899)

1974

42

Statute Law Revision Act 1974

11.4.1974

11.4.1974

1975

87

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1975

20.11.1975

29.1.1976 (Gazette 29.1.1976 p357)

1980

32

Statutes Amendment (Property) Act 1980

17.4.1980

22.5.1980 (Gazette 22.5.1980 p1373)

1984

22

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1984

10.5.1984

10.5.1984

1984

23

Law of Property Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1984

10.5.1984

10.5.1984

1989

13

Law of Property Act Amendment Act 1989

20.4.1989

1.7.1989 (Gazette 8.6.1989 p1552)

1991

33

Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 1991

24.4.1991

6.6.1991 (Gazette 6.6.1991 p1776)

1995

27

Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 1995

27.4.1995

s 15—4.5.1995 (Gazette 4.5.1995 p1705)

1996

7

Law of Property (Perpetuities and Accumulations) Amendment Act 1996

4.4.1996

1.5.1996 (Gazette 18.4.1996 p1990)

1996

67

Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 1996

15.8.1996

s 22—17.10.1996 (Gazette 17.10.1996 p1361)

1997

59

Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio) Act 1997

31.7.1997

Pt 6 (ss 9—14) & Sch—14.9.1997 (Gazette 11.9.1997 p704)

2003

44

Statute Law Revision Act 2003

23.10.2003

Sch 1—24.11.2003 (Gazette 13.11.2003 p4048)

2006

17

Statutes Amendment (New Rules of Civil Procedure) Act 2006

6.7.2006

Pt 44 (ss 152—154)—4.9.2006 (Gazette 17.8.2006 p2831)

2019

46

Statutes Amendment (Legalisation of Same Sex Marriage Consequential Amendments) Act 2019

19.12.2019

Pt 9 (s 24)—1.5.2020 (Gazette 30.4.2020 p838)

2019

48

Married Persons (Separate Legal Status) Act 2019

19.12.2019

Sch 1 (cll 2 to 9)—1.5.2020 (Gazette 30.4.2020 p837)

2023

30

Succession Act 2023

25.10.2023

Sch 2 (cll 5 & 6)—uncommenced

Provisions amended since 3 February 1976

• Legislative history prior to 3 February 1976 appears in marginal notes and footnotes included in the consolidation of this Act contained in Volume 5 of The Public General Acts of South Australia 1837-1975 at page 620.

New entries appear in bold.

Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.

Provision

How varied

Commencement

Pt 1

s 2

deleted by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 3

deleted in pursuance of the Acts Republication Act 1967

14.9.1997

s 7

court

substituted by 33/1991 s 13

6.6.1991

substituted by 59/1997 s 9

14.9.1997

interest

inserted by 7/1996 s 3(a)

1.5.1996

mental defective and mentally defective person and committee

deleted by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

mentally incapacitated person

inserted by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

vest

inserted by 7/1996 s 3(b)

1.5.1996

Pt 2

heading preceding s 8

deleted by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 15

s 15(1)

s 15 amended and designated as s 15(1) by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 15(2)

s 15 amended and designated as s 15(2) by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 24B

inserted by 32/1980 s 5

22.5.1980

s 24C

inserted by 23/1984 s 2

10.5.1984

s 24D

inserted by 27/1995 s 15

4.5.1995

heading preceding s 25

deleted by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

Pt 3

heading preceding s 28

deleted by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 40

s 40(1)

amended by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 2(1), (2)

1.5.2020

s 40(2)

substituted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 2(3)

1.5.2020

s 40(3)

amended by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 2(4)

1.5.2020

s 41

amended by 22/1984 s 2

10.5.1984

substituted by 13/1989 s 3

1.7.1989

s 41AA

inserted by 13/1989 s 3

1.7.1989

s 41A

inserted by 32/1980 s 6

22.5.1980

substituted by 67/1996 s 22

17.10.1996

heading preceding s 42

deleted by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 42

s 42(1)

amended by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

amended by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 42(3)

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 3

1.5.2020

s 42(4)

amended by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

Pt 4

s 49

s 49(2)

amended by 17/2006 s 152

4.9.2006

s 55A

s 55A(2a)

amended by 59/1997 s 10(a)

14.9.1997

s 55A(4)

deleted by 59/1997 s 10(b)

14.9.1997

Pt 6

substituted by 7/1996 s 4

1.5.1996

s 58A

inserted by 59/1997 s 11

14.9.1997

Pt 7

s 66

amended by 17/2006 s 153

4.9.2006

Pt 8

s 73

s 73 I—V redesignated as s 73(a)—(e) by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

s 82

amended by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 4(1), (2)

1.5.2020

Pt 9

s 85

deleted by 59/1997 s 12

14.9.1997

Pt 10

heading amended by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

ss 89—91

amended by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

heading preceding s 92

deleted by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

ss 92—99

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 5

1.5.2020

s 100

s 100(1)

substituted by 46/2019 s 24

1.5.2020

s 100(1a)

inserted by 46/2019 s 24

1.5.2020

ss 101—104

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 6

1.5.2020

s 105 before deletion by 48/2019

s 105(1)

amended by 59/1997 s 13(a)

14.9.1997

s 105(2)

amended by 59/1997 s 13(b)

14.9.1997

s 105(3)

amended by 59/1997 s 13(c)

14.9.1997

s 105

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 6

1.5.2020

ss 106 and 107

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 6

1.5.2020

s 108

amended by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 7

1.5.2020

s 109

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 8

1.5.2020

s 111

deleted by 48/2019 Sch 1 cl 9

1.5.2020

s 114

s 114(1)

amended by 17/2006 s 154

4.9.2006

Pt 11



heading

deleted by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

Sch 2

amended by 59/1997 s 14 (Sch)

14.9.1997

Pts 1—6 redesignated as cll and scll by 44/2003 s 3(1) (Sch 1)

24.11.2003

Historical versions

Reprint No 1—1.10.1991

Reprint No 2—4.5.1995

Reprint No 3—1.5.1996

Reprint No 4—17.10.1996

Reprint No 5—14.9.1997

Reprint No 6—24.11.2003

4.9.2006


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