Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 214

214 .         Offences

        (1)         A person must not do any of the things set out in subsection (3).

        Penalty: imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of $100 000.

        Summary conviction penalty: imprisonment for 3 years and a fine of $40 000.

        (2)         An offence under subsection (1) is a crime.

        (3)         The things to which subsection (1) applies are —

            (a)         making any statement or declaration that the person making it knows is false or misleading in a material particular in —

                  (i)         any application under this Act; or

                  (ii)         any document lodged, deposited, presented or filed under this or any other Act;

            (b)         making or giving any certification required under this Act that the person making or giving it knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

            (c)         providing to the Commissioner or Registrar any material, document, fact or information that the person providing it knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

            (d)         suppressing, withholding or concealing from the Commissioner or Registrar any material, document, fact or information;

            (e)         making any statutory declaration authorised or required under this Act that the person making it knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

            (f)         giving evidence in the course of an examination before the Commissioner that the person giving it knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

            (g)         fraudulently procuring —

                  (i)         a certificate of title or instrument; or

                  (ii)         an entry in the Register; or

                  (iii)         any erasure or alteration in any entry in the Register;

        [(h)         deleted]

                  (i)         misleading or deceiving any person authorised to require an explanation or information in respect of —

                  (i)         any land, or the title to any land, under the operation of this Act; or

                  (ii)         any land, or the title to any land, that is the subject of an application to bring it under the operation of this Act; or

                  (iii)         any land or the title to any land in respect of which any dealing or transmission is proposed to be registered.

        [(j)         deleted]

        [Section 214 inserted: No. 2 of 2014 s. 86; amended: No. 32 of 2018 s. 264; No. 21 of 2022 s. 40.]