10Effect of registration of abandoned land notices

10 Effect of registration of abandoned land notices

(1)  Where an abandoned land notice has been registered the land specified therein reverts to and revests in the Crown absolutely freed and discharged from all estates and interests, save only such rights as may have been excluded from the operation of the notice pursuant to section 5 or section 7 .

(2)  Where under this section any land reverts to and revests in the Crown there also vests in the Crown all estates and interests appurtenant thereto.

(3)  Where there is excluded from the operation of an abandoned land notice an estate or interest that was not subsisting immediately before the notice was registered, that estate or interest shall be deemed to have been created on the registration of that notice.

(4)  [Section 10 Subsection (4) amended by No. 23 of 2021, s. 4, Applied:01 Jan 2022] *[Section 10 Subsection (4) substituted by No. 19 of 1980, s. 171 and Sched. 1 ]*Subject to subsection (5) , upon registering the Crown as proprietor of land pursuant to section 9 , the Recorder may issue a certificate of title in the Crown's name to the Director.

(5)  [Section 10 Subsection (5) amended by No. 19 of 1980, s. 171 and Sched. 1 ] Subsection (4) does not apply in respect of any land if at the time of the registration of the abandoned land notice there is lodged at the office of the Recorder a direction by the Director that the land is to cease to be subject to the Land Titles Act 1980 ; and if such a direction is so lodged the land ceases to be so subject and the Recorder shall make in the Register such cancellations and entries as he considers necessary as a consequence thereof.