Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Any person
claiming to have acquired any estate in remainder reversion or otherwise on a
transmission may apply to be registered as so entitled in like manner and
supported by the like evidence as near as may be as is herein provided with
respect to a devisee or other person claiming an estate of freehold in
possession on a transmission.
(2) Such application
shall be dealt with in like manner as is mentioned in the last preceding
section; and any entry made thereupon shall have the same effect and the
person registered shall hold the land for the same purposes and shall have the
same powers as is and are mentioned in such section.
(3) If there shall be
any doubt dispute or litigation under this or under either of the last 2
preceding sections as to the true construction or legal validity or effect of
any will or settlement relating to any freehold land or estate or if the
person entitled under any of the provisions of this Act to any land or estate
under any will settlement or instrument cannot be ascertained the Supreme
Court sitting in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction may appoint a
person to be registered as the representative of such land or estate; and such
person when registered shall become the transferee and be deemed to be the
proprietor thereof for the purposes of this Act subject however to any
directions which shall from time to time be given by the court sitting as
aforesaid touching the disposition thereof or the dealing therewith.
[Section 221 amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 51.]