Victorian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 22

    (1)     An entitled person may lodge with the Registrar a specified dealing relating to the land.

    (2)     The person who lodges the specified dealing must lodge—

        (a)     the deed or instrument of transfer, conveyance, mortgage or assignment of possessory interests that comprises the specified dealing; and

        (b)     the last deed or other instrument which indicates the person's entitlement to deal with the land; and

        (c)     a search of title relating to the land.

    (3)     An applicant may withdraw the specified dealing at any time before the creation of a folio of the Register.

    (4)     On the withdrawal of the specified dealing, the Registrar must return to that person or to the person appearing to be entitled to them the documents lodged under subsection (2).

    (5)     For the purposes of any regulations under section 120(2)(b), an instrument of conveyance of the fee simple in land lodged under this section is deemed to be an instrument of transfer of the land.

S. 23 substituted by No. 85/1998 s. 6.