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Conveyancing Act 1919
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#### 184C General Register of Deeds
184C General Register of Deeds
> > (1) The Registrar-General shall cause a General Register of Deeds to be maintained for the purposes of this Division.
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> > (2) The General Register of Deeds shall be comprised of—
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> > > (a) the General Register of Deeds kept pursuant to the [Registration of Deeds Act 1897](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1897-22),
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> > > (b) registration copies of instruments registered under this Division,
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> > > (c) instruments of a prescribed class,
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> > > (d) records required by the regulations to be kept as part of the General Register of Deeds,
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> > > (e) a record of registrations made under Division 2 after the amendment of that Division by the [Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-5),
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> > > (f) a record of registrations of resumptions and rescissions of resumptions made under section 196A after the amendment of that section by the [Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-5),
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> > > (g) instruments that were registered under the [Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages Act 1898](/view/html/repealed/current/act-1898-007) after the commencement of the [Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-6),
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> > > (h) instruments that were registered under the [Bills of Sale Act 1898](/view/html/repealed/current/act-1898-010) after the commencement of the [Bills of Sale (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-7), and
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> > > (h1) instruments that were registered under the [Security Interests in Goods Act 2005](/view/html/repealed/current/act-2005-069) (including instruments granting agricultural goods mortgages),
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> > > (i) memoranda of covenants registered under Division 5 of Part 6.
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> > (2A) The General Register of Deeds is also comprised of—
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> > > (a) entries under Division 2 that constituted the register of causes, writs and orders affecting land immediately before the amendment of that Division by the [Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-5),
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> > > (b) recordings of resumptions, and of rescissions of resumptions, that constituted the Register of Resumptions under section 196A immediately before the amendment of that section by the [Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-5),
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> > > (c) each register kept for the purposes of a provision of the [Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages Act 1898](/view/html/repealed/current/act-1898-007) immediately before the amendment of the provision by the [Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-6), and
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> > > (d) each filing, recording or registration that, immediately before the repeal or amendment of a provision of the [Bills of Sale Act 1898](/view/html/repealed/current/act-1898-010) by the [Bills of Sale (Amendment) Act 1992](/view/pdf/asmade/act-1992-7), was a filing, recording or registration for the purposes of the provision.
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> > (3) The General Register of Deeds may be maintained in or upon any medium or combination of mediums capable of having information recorded in or upon it or them.
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> > (4) The Registrar-General may, from time to time, vary the manner or form in which the whole or any part of the General Register of Deeds is maintained.
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> **s 184C:** Ins 1984 No 20, Sch 1 (6). Am 1992 No 5, Sch 1 (3); 2002 No 138, Sch 5.1 \[1\]; 2004 No 39, Sch 7.2 \[2\]; 2005 No 69, Sch 5.1 \[1\]; 2010 No 57, Sch 1.3 \[1\] \[2\].