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Conveyancing Act 1919
188Protection of purchasers against non-registered writs etc
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#### 188 Protection of purchasers against non-registered writs etc
188 Protection of purchasers against non-registered writs etc
> > (1) Every such writ issued or renewed, and every such order, award, determination, notification, or charge, and every proceeding thereunder, shall be void against, and current legal proceedings shall not bind a person who becomes a purchaser of the land affected thereby without notice of the writ, order, award, determination, notification, charge, or current legal proceedings unless the same is registered in the General Register of Deeds so that such registration has effect at the time of the purchase, and is so indexed that the purchaser ought reasonably to have found the entry on search.
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> > (2) No purchaser shall be affected with notice of any such writ, order, award, determination, notification, charge, or any proceeding thereunder or of any current legal proceedings by reason of omission to make any inquiry or any search other than search in the General Register of Deeds.
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> > (3) This section does not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, in respect of land under the provisions of the [Real Property Act 1900](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1900-025).
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> **s 188:** Am 1972 No 17, sec 19 (a); 1992 No 5, Sch 2 (5).