Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 81U

81U .         Registrar may accept for registration signed and stamped duplicate original documents

        (1)         The Registrar may accept for registration under this Division not only signed original documents stamped as original documents, but also, in the absence of such original documents, signed duplicate original documents stamped as duplicate original documents before the commencement of the Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997 .

        (2)         A duplicate original document accepted for registration under subsection (1) is to be treated, when registered, as if it were the original document.

        (3)         In subsection (1) —

        stamped means stamped or endorsed to indicate duty under the Stamp Act 1921 or the Duties Act 2008 .

        [Section 81U inserted: No. 31 of 1997 s. 104(1); amended: No. 45 of 2002 s. 25; No. 12 of 2008 Sch. 1 cl. 38(1).]