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Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997
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#### 171 Vesting of property
(1) If an order is made by a court under this Act vesting property in a person:
(a) subject to subsections (2) and (3), the property immediately vests in law and in equity in the person named in the order by force of this Act; and
(b) if the order is made by a court—the person who applied for the order must, within 7 days after the entering of the order, lodge an office copy of the order with such person (if any) as is specified in the order.
(2) If:
(a) the property is of a kind whose transfer or transmission may be registered under a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory; and
(b) that law enables the registration of such an order;
the property does not vest in that person at law until the requirements of the law referred to in paragraph (a) have been complied with.
(3) If:
(a) the property is of a kind whose transfer or transmission may be registered under a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory; and
(b) that law enables the person named in the order to be registered as the owner of that property;
the property does not vest in that person at law until the requirements of the law referred to in paragraph (b) have been complied with.