{"id":"amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884","name":"Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884","slug":"amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":29969,"registerId":"wa-amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nAmendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884\n\nWestern Australia\n\nAmendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884\n\nContents\n\n1. Amendment of Deeds of Grant to show adjusted boundaries 1\n\n3. Amendment of enrolled copies of lost Deeds of Grant 2\n\n3A. Interpretation 2\n\n4. Short title 3\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 4\n\nDefined terms\n\n  \n\nWestern Australia\n\nAmendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884\n\nAn Act to simplify the procedure in amending Deeds of Grant which contain an erroneous description of the boundaries of the land contained therein.\n\nPreamble\n\nWhereas the procedure in amending Deeds of Grant which contain an erroneous description of the boundaries of allotments in the towns of the Colony, as provided in the fifth section of the 8th Victoria, No. 9, is cumbrous and inconvenient, and whereas there is no similar provision contained in the Act 4th and 5th Victoria, No. 20 2, relating to the boundaries of country lands or lands not included within the provisions of the first recited Act; And whereas it is desirable that a simple method of procedure should be provided for the amendment of the Deeds of Grant referred to in the said Acts:\n\nBe it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: —\n\n##### 1. Amendment of Deeds of Grant to show adjusted boundaries\n\nIn any case in which the true boundaries of any lands or allotments shall have been duly adjusted under the powers of the said recited Acts or of either of them, and the said boundaries so adjusted as aforesaid shall differ from those contained in any grant thereof from the Crown, issued previously to such adjustment, it shall be lawful for an authorised land officer to endorse or cause to be endorsed on the back or other convenient part of the deed or instrument of grant, if it shall be produced to him for that purpose, the true boundaries as so adjusted and which he shall sign, and the said deed so endorsed and signed as aforesaid shall be forthwith given or forwarded by an authorised land officer to the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers, and the said Registrar shall make and sign a memorandum of such endorsement in the margin or in some other convenient part of the enrolled copy of the said deed, and shall re‑deliver the said deed to the person producing the same as aforesaid.\n\n[Section 1 amended: No. 126 of 1987 s. 29; No. 47 of 2011 s. 16.]\n\n[**2.** Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f) and (g).]\n\n##### 3. Amendment of enrolled copies of lost Deeds of Grant\n\nIf any such Crown Grant as aforesaid shall have been lost, the grantee, his heir or assignee, or other owner for the time being of the lands or allotments contained therein, may apply to an authorised land officer to forward to the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers a certified copy of the entry in the Record Book kept by an authorised land officer of the true boundaries of the said lands or allotments, and an authorised land officer shall, on such application being duly made to him as aforesaid, forward a certified copy of the entry in the said book of the true boundaries of the said lands or allotments, without fee, to the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers, who shall thereupon make and sign a memorandum of the true boundaries of the said lands or allotments in the margin or in some other convenient part of the enrolled copy of the said deed.\n\n[Section 3 amended: No. 126 of 1987 s. 30; No. 47 of 2011 s. 16 and 27.]\n\n##### 3A. Interpretation\n\nIn this Act —\n\n  authorised land officer has the meaning given by the *Land Administration Act 1997*.\n\n[Section 3A inserted: No. 126 of 1987 s. 31; amended: No. 31 of 1997 s. 141.]\n\n##### 4. Short title\n\nThis Act may be cited as the *Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884* 1.\n\n[Section 4 inserted: No. 81 of 1966 s. 2.]\n\nNotes\n\n1 This is a compilation of the *Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884* and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Short title** | **Number and year** | **Assent** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Untitled Act 3 | 48 Vict.<br>No. 13 1884 | 10 Sep 1884 | 10 Sep 1884 |\n| *Statute Law Revision (Short Titles) Act 1966* s. 2 | 81 of 1966 | 12 Dec 1966 | 12 Dec 1966 |\n| *Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1987* Pt. VI | 126 of 1987 | 31 Dec 1987 | 16 Sep 1988 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 16 Sep 1988 p. 3637) |\n| **Reprint of the *Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884* as at 12 Jul 1989** (includes amendments listed above) | | | |\n| *Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997* s. 141 | 31 of 1997 | 3 Oct 1997 | 30 Mar 1998 (see s. 2 and *Gazette* 27 Mar 1998 p. 1765) |\n| **Reprint 2: The *Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884* as at 10 Oct 2003** (includes amendments listed above) | | | |\n| *Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2011* s. 16 and 27 | 47 of 2011 | 25 Oct 2011 | 26 Oct 2011 (see s. 2(b)) |\n\n\n2\t*Land Boundaries Act 1841.*\n\n3 Now known as the *Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884*; short title inserted (see note under s. 4).\n\nDefined terms\n\n*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*\n\n**Defined term Provision(s)**\n\nauthorised land officer 3A\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Unable to assess whether scope changed from original intent — no legislative text was available for analysis. The page returned was a system error notice, not the legislation itself."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative content was retrieved — only a webpage error/redirect notice was provided","Impossible to assess complexity without access to the actual legislative text","Score of 1 reflects absence of content, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"## Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884 (WA)\n\n**No usable content is available for analysis.**\n\nThe link to this Western Australian legislation returned an error page — the content has been moved or removed as part of a website upgrade. What was retrieved is essentially a '404-style' notice from the Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office, along with a standard Acknowledgement of Country.\n\nNo legislative text, provisions, or amendments were accessible, so it is **not possible to explain what this law does, who it affects, or why it matters**.\n\n**What you can do:**\n- Visit the [WA Legislation website](https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au) and search for \"Amendment of Deeds of Grant Act 1884\" directly.\n- Contact the Parliamentary Counsel's Office Helpdesk for assistance locating the document."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act retains its original, narrow purpose of providing a simpler administrative route to amend erroneous boundary descriptions on Crown grants (ss.1,3). Later changes modernised terminology and procedural mechanics (inserting the definition of 'authorised land officer' and specifying Registrar action in s.3A) but do not expand substantive rights or impose new obligations on third parties; the effect is procedural streamlining and reliance on land administration officials (ss.1,3,3A)."},"complexity_factors":["Very narrow, procedural scope limited to correcting boundary descriptions on Crown grants (ss.1,3).","Small number of provisions — low volumetric complexity but procedural specificity increases legal effect (ss.1,3).","Delegation of practical discretion to 'authorised land officer' and mandatory recording by Registrar — reliance on administrative action and interpretation (ss.1,3,3A).","Cross‑reference to the Land Administration Act 1997 for the definition of authorised land officer introduces external dependency (s.3A).","Procedural detail about production of deeds and certified entries (s.1, s.3) creates potential evidentiary and implementation questions (e.g. what counts as ‘produced’ or ‘certified’).","Historical amendments and omitted section(s) create small interpretive work for practitioners checking current text and reprints (compilation notes)."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act lets an authorised land officer endorse corrected boundaries on Crown grants and requires the Registrar of Deeds to record that endorsement in the enrolled copy (ss.1,3). Owners of lost grants can ask an authorised land officer to forward a certified record of the true boundaries, sent without fee for entry by the Registrar (s.3). The Act states it is to simplify amendment procedure; it concentrates decision and recording authority with authorised land officers and the Registrar (s.3A) and moves the administrative burden onto land officials."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose of correcting boundary errors in historical Crown grants. Modern amendments have only updated institutional references (changing 'Commissioner of Crown Lands' to 'authorised land officer' and updating citation references) without expanding the substantive scope."},"complexity_factors":["Very short statute — only 4 operative sections (one omitted)","Single defined term ('authorised land officer') incorporated by reference to another Act","Straightforward procedural mechanism with minimal conditional logic","No nested exceptions or complex cross-referencing beyond historical statute citations","Language is archaic but structurally simple"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a Western Australian law from 1884 that fixes a paperwork problem with old land titles. Back when Western Australia was a colony, the government gave out land grants (official documents proving ownership) that sometimes had wrong boundary descriptions. This Act creates a simple way to correct those mistakes without starting court proceedings.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Allows a government land officer to write the correct boundaries on the back of an old land grant document and sign it\n- Requires the Registrar of Deeds to note this correction in their official records\n- Provides a backup process if the original grant document has been lost — the landowner can get a certified copy of the boundary records instead\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Owners of old Crown land grants (mostly historical land titles from the 1800s)\n- Government land officers who maintain land records\n- The Registrar of Deeds and Transfers (the government office that keeps official copies of property documents)\n\n**Why it matters:**\nLand boundaries were often surveyed and adjusted after the original grants were issued. Without this law, fixing the paperwork to match the real boundaries would require complex legal procedures. This Act streamlined that process nearly 140 years ago and still operates today for historical land titles, though modern land titles now use the Torrens system (a different, more secure way of recording land ownership)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884","history":"/api/acts/amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884/history","analysis":"/api/acts/amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/amendment-of-deeds-of-grant-act-1884/documents"}}