57Conditions of sale of land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900

57 Conditions of sale of land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900

57 Conditions of sale of land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900

(1) Under a contract for the purchase of land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900, the purchaser shall be entitled at the cost of the vendor—

(a) to receive from the vendor sufficient particulars of title to enable the purchaser to prepare the appropriate dealing to give effect to the contract, and

(b) to receive from the vendor an abstract of any instrument forming part of the vendor’s title, in respect of which a caveat is entered upon the Register kept under that Act, and

(c) to have a document of title lodged by the vendor with the Registrar-General to enable the dealing to be registered, and

(d) to have any objection to the registration of the dealing removed by the vendor: Provided that, as to any such objection which the purchaser ought to have raised on the particulars or abstract, or upon the investigation of the title, or which arises from the purchaser’s own act, default, or omission, the purchaser shall not be entitled to have the same removed except at the purchaser’s own cost.

(2) This section applies only if and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the contract, and shall have effect subject to the terms of the contract, and to the provisions therein contained.

s 57: Am 1972 No 17, sec 6 (b); 2016 No 46, Sch 4.2 [5]; 2021 No 10, Sch 3.7[2].