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Land Title Act 2000
85ACancellation of registration of mortgage by Registrar-General
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85A Cancellation of registration of mortgage by Registrar-General
The Registrar-General may cancel the registration of a mortgage if:
(a) the person by or on whose behalf the mortgage was signed or
executed as mortgagor (the purported mortgagor) is not the
registered proprietor of land subject to the mortgage; and
(b) the mortgagee:
(i) failed to comply with a requirement under this Act or the
Electronic Conveyancing National Law (NT) to verify the
purported mortgagor's identity or authority to enter into
the mortgage; or
(ii) if the mortgage was transferred to the mortgagee – failed
to comply with a requirement under this Act to establish
that the transferor complied with an obligation imposed
on the transferor, as mortgagee, to verify the purported
mortgagor's identity or authority to enter into the