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Real Property Act 1900
45AConstruction of dealings relating to land abutting on streams or roads
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#### 45A Construction of dealings relating to land abutting on streams or roads
45A Construction of dealings relating to land abutting on streams or roads
> > (1) Except as in this section mentioned, the rebuttable rule of construction applicable to a conveyance of land therein indicated as abutting on a non-tidal stream or a road, that the land extends to the middle line of the stream or road, shall apply, and be deemed always to have applied to dealings registered under the provisions of this Act relating to land indicated in the dealings as so abutting.
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> > (2) The fact that an applicant to bring land abutting on a non-tidal stream or a road under the provisions of this Act has not expressly declared that the applicant was entitled to the bed or part of the bed of the stream or to the road or part thereof shall not, but the fact that the applicant had not a title to any part of the bed of the stream or to any part of the road shall prevent the application of the rule mentioned in subsection (1) to a folio of the Register evidencing title to the land or part of the land which was the subject of the application.
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> > (3) (Repealed)
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> **s 45A:** Ins 1930 No 44, sec 39. Am 1970 No 23, sec 10 (n); 1979 No 164, Sch 10 (15).