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Section 25 — Land Transfer Act 1952: When Registrar may reject application or order service of notices

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25 When Registrar may reject application or order service of notices If it appears to the Registrar that any person interested (otherwise than as a lessee under a lease for years) is not a party to any application, or that the evidence adduced by the applicant in support of his claim or of any matters which he is required to prove is deficient in any essential particular, the Registrar may either reject the application, or at discretion may limit a time, by advertisement as aforesaid, within which caveat may be lodged forbidding the bringing of the land under this Act, and in such latter case may direct that such notices shall be served by the applicant upon such persons and in such form and manner as the Registrar deem necessary, and that, in addition to the advertisements prescribed in section 23 hereof, notice of the application be advertised at the cost of the applicant in any gazette or newspaper published in New Zealand or elsewhere. Compare: 1915 No 35 s 25 Section 25 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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