Conveyancing Act 1913 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

Conveyancing Act 1913

No. 8 of 1913

Compilation No. 1

Compilation date: 29 September 2018

Includes amendments up to: Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015 (No. 2, 2015)

NORFOLK ISLAND

CONVEYANCING ACT 1913

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Appointment of Registrar of Lands and Deputy Registrar 3. Sale, etc, of land to be in accordance with these enactments 4. Attendance on Registrar for dealings in land 5. Description of land to be provided 6. Powers of transferee as mortgagee 7. Manner of keeping instruments 8. Duties of Registrar 9. Records to be available for inspection 10. Endorsement on instrument by Registrar 11. Fees 12. Instruments not required to be sealed 13. Registrar of Lands includes Deputy Registrar 13A. Delegation 14. Regulations Schedule 1 Schedule 2 Schedule 3 Schedule 4

NORFOLK ISLAND

Conveyancing Act 1913 _______________________________________________________________________

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing Act 1913. Appointment of Registrar of Lands and Deputy Registrar 2. (1) The Commonwealth Minister may appoint a Registrar of Lands. (2) The Commonwealth Minister may also appoint a person to be Deputy Registrar of Lands, who, during the suspension or the absence through illness or otherwise of the Registrar of Lands, shall have the powers and duties of the said Registrar. Sale, etc, of land to be in accordance with these enactments 3. No land shall be sold, mortgaged, or leased (except for a period less than one year), or otherwise dealt with or disposed of except in accordance with these enactments. Attendance on Registrar for dealings in land 4. (1) Whenever it is desired to deal with any land by way of conveyance upon sale, mortgage, lease, or otherwise, or to make any other disposition of land, the parties or intending parties to the transaction, or their duly constituted attorneys, shall attend before the Registrar of Lands at his office; whereupon the said Registrar shall fill up, or cause to be filled up, in duplicate (and in case of a lease in triplicate) the appropriate form as set out in the First Schedule, making such alterations in and additions to the same as he may think necessary, and such forms so filled up shall be executed by all the parties aforesaid, or their duly constituted attorneys, and attested by the said Registrar, who shall hand one part to the purchaser, mortgagee, lessee, or other person, or his attorney, and in case of a lease another part to the lessor or his attorney, and shall retain one other part to be kept of record at the office of the said Registrar. No conveyance as aforesaid made after 1 January 1898, shall be valid or admitted in evidence unless so prepared, signed, and attested as aforesaid: Provided that where none of the forms aforesaid are appropriate to the disposition proposed to be made, a new form may, with the approval of the Chief Executive Officer, be substituted. (2) A person who, at the time of dealing with land under this Act on behalf of another person, is the attorney of that other person by virtue of an instrument registered, or deemed to be registered, under the Powers of Attorney Act 1959 shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be the duly constituted attorney of that person with respect to that dealing with land, whether that instrument is under seal or not.