Section 190 — Land Transfer Act 1952: Registrar may issue ordinary or limited certificate of title
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190 Registrar may issue ordinary or limited certificate of title (1) The Registrar shall issue a certificate of title for the land the subject of any such application, in accordance with the provisions of this Act as qualified by this Part of this Act, in the name of the proprietor appearing to be entitled thereto. (2) If in respect of any land it appears to the Registrar that the Registrar ought to have issued an ordinary certificate of title if application to bring that land under the provisions of this Act had been made by a person competent to make the same, and if the Registrar is satisfied that the applicant is in possession of the land, and that the position and boundaries of the land are sufficiently defined by the instruments of title or by any deposited plan or plans, the certificate of title shall be an ordinary certificate of title. (3) Save as provided in the last preceding subsection, the certificate of title to be issued under this Part of this Act shall be a limited certificate of title as hereinafter defined. Compare: 1924 No 32 s 8 Subsection (2) was amended, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123) by omitting the words “ and Examiner ” .
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