Western Australian Current Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEEDS ACT 1856

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title
           Preamble

   1.      Application of Act
            
   2.      Office
            
   2A.     Assistant Registrar of Deeds and Transfers
            
   3.      Priority according to date of registration
            
   4.      Times for registration
            
   5.      Purchaser not disturbed by suppressed will if unregistered
            
   6.      Memorial for registration
            
   7.      Claimant’s signature to affidavit authorises registration
            
   8.      Particulars required in memorials
            
   9.      Order of time
            
   10.     Memorials to be registered in succession, and books and indexes to be kept
            
   11.     Mortgages and judgments
            
   12.     Contents of certificate
            
   13.     Anyone may deposit for safe custody, any deed or will
            
   14.     Enrolment
            
   15.     Lost instrument
            
   16.     Prior registrations even if informal evidence of facts and circumstances
            
   19.     Court may cancel false or fraudulent registration
            
   20.     Mistake or omission, if not wilful, may be rectified by court
            
   22.     Regulations
            
   22AA.    Certain prescribed fees may exceed cost recovery
            
   22AB.   Expiry of section 22AA
            
           22A. Validation
            
   25.     Short title
            
           Other notes
           Defined terms