Land Titles Act 1980
33The Register, certificates of title and registration
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33 The Register, certificates of title and registration
(1) Subject to this section, the Recorder shall keep or cause to be kept a register of title to land which is subject to this Act.
(2) Regulations may prescribe the manner in which the Register is to be kept.
(3) *[Section 33 Subsection (3) amended by No. 21 of 1996, s. 6 ]*Subject to any regulation under this section the Register may be kept wholly or partly –
(a) on paper, on microfilm, or in or on such other medium as may be approved by the Recorder; or
(b) in such device for storing or processing information as may be approved by the Recorder.
(4) The Register shall comprise –
(a) the folios of the Register;
(b) the dealings registered under this Act and any of the Acts specified in Schedule 2 ; and
(c) [Section 33 Subsection (4) amended by No. 10 of 2000, s. 10, Applied:28 Apr 2000] schemes under the Strata Titles Act 1998 –
but shall not include any other maps and plans or documents deposited with the Recorder.
(5) Each folio of the Register shall –
(a) be the record of the title to one or more parcels of land, or to an estate in one or more parcels of land being an estate of a kind referred to in subsection (6) ;
(b) be numbered or otherwise identified as prescribed;
(c) contain a record of such matters as the Recorder is, by or under this or any other Act, required to record on the folio; and
(d) contain such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(6) [Section 33 Subsection (6) amended by No. 23 of 2021, s. 41, Applied:01 Jan 2022] [Section 33 Subsection (6) amended by No. 36 of 2012, s. 12, Applied:13 Nov 2012] The Recorder may, if the Recorder deems it convenient to do so, create a folio of the Register for any of the following: