Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 177

177 .         Applications under s. 170, 171 or 20 may be granted although other certificates may be affected

                On any application under section 170 or 171 or to bring land under this Act the Commissioner may grant the same although the certificate to be created and registered or amended or the relevant graphic to be amended or replaced upon such application may affect land comprised in any other certificate or relevant graphic if it shall appear that the land so affected has been included in such other certificate or relevant graphic by reason of some error in survey or other misdescription unless the title to the land so affected has been theretofore determined in a contested proceeding under this Act or in any court of competent jurisdiction in which the right to the possession of such land was in question.

        [Section 177 amended: No. 81 of 1996 s. 106 and 145(2); No. 6 of 2003 s. 66.]