Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 192A

192A .         Registrar entitled to assume that lodging party has certain authorities from other interested parties

        (1)         In this section —

        lodge includes deposit, present and file.

        (2)         This section applies to any document that is lodged —

            (a)         for registration; or

            (b)         in relation to any land, title, estate or interest; or

            (c)         in connection with any application or dealing.

        (3)         The Registrar is entitled to assume that a person who lodges a document to which this section applies has authority from all persons claiming under, or having an interest in, the document to do all of the following —

            (a)         to lodge it;

            (b)         if applicable, to withdraw it from registration;

            (c)         to uplift it for amendment;

            (d)         to do anything to or in relation to the document that a person claiming under, or having an interest in, the document could do if they had lodged it;

            (e)         to receive requisitions, communications and notices in respect of it;

            (f)         to attend to all other matters that may arise —

                  (i)         in the course of registration of the document (if applicable); or

                  (ii)         in the course of any other action that the Registrar is authorised under this Act or any other Act to take with respect to the document.

        (4)         This section does not apply to any document lodged before the Electronic Conveyancing Act 2014 section 82 comes into operation.

        [Section 192A inserted: No. 2 of 2014 s. 82.]