Section 228A — Land Transfer Act 1952: Fraudulent removal, destruction, etc, of records

228A Fraudulent removal, destruction, etc, of records Where any person fraudulently— (a) Removes from any Land Registry Office any property of a Land Registry Office, including, but without limiting the meaning of the term “ property ” , any certificate or other instrument of title, plan, record, index to records, document, or instrument of any kind whatsoever; or (b) Destroys, conceals, cancels, obliterates, or damages any such property,—

he shall be deemed for the purposes of the Crimes Act 1961 to have stolen that property, and shall be liable to the penalty prescribed by paragraph (b) of section 227 of that Act as if the property were an object to which that paragraph applies. Section 228A was inserted, as from 7 October 1966, by section 16 Land Transfer Amendment Act 1966 (1966 No 37).