Section 27 — Land Transfer Act 1952: If no caveat lodged, Registrar may bring land under Act

27 If no caveat lodged, Registrar may bring land under Act (1) The Registrar must (by acting under subsection (2) ) bring under this Act the land described in any application if, at the expiration of the time limited in respect of the application, it appears to the Registrar that— (a) All necessary notices have been given; and (b) No caveats have been lodged; and (c) No sufficient cause to the contrary appears. (2) The Registrar must— (a) Issue to the applicant or a person specified in writing by the applicant, a certificate of title for the land in Form No 2 in Schedule 1; or (b) create a computer register for the land and, if the land is not electronic transactions land, issue a certificate of title accordingly. Compare: 1915 No 35 s 27 Section 27 was substituted, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123). Subsection (2)(b) was substituted, as from 1 June 2002, by section 65(1) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11).