46CRegistrar-General may register as proprietor person who is entitled to land by operation of statute

46C Registrar-General may register as proprietor person who is entitled to land by operation of statute

46C Registrar-General may register as proprietor person who is entitled to land by operation of statute

(1) Where, by the operation of a statute, either directly or by reason of anything done in pursuance thereof—

(a) land under the provisions of this Act became, before the commencement of the Real Property (Amendment) Act 1970, or becomes, after that commencement, vested in a person (other than the registered proprietor of the land) either alone or jointly or in common with that registered proprietor, or

(b) land that is the site of a closed road or part thereof so became, or so becomes, vested in a person registered under this Act as the proprietor of adjoining land,

the Registrar-General may, of the Registrar-General’s own motion, and shall, at the written request (made in the approved form) of a person in whom there has been such a vesting on such evidence as appears to the Registrar-General sufficient, and after such notice (if any) to such person as the Registrar-General deems proper, register the person in whom any such land is vested as the proprietor of such estate therein as the Registrar-General deems to be appropriate, and for that purpose the Registrar-General may make such recordings in the Register and create such folios of the Register, as appears to the Registrar-General to be necessary or proper.

(2)–(4) (Repealed)

s 46C: Ins 1970 No 23, sec 22. Am 1979 No 164, Sch 12 (2); 1999 No 31, Sch 1.39 [1]; 2021 No 10, Sch 1.1[25].