Section 53 — Land Transfer Act 1952: Special provisions as to Canterbury educational reserves

53 Special provisions as to Canterbury educational reserves (1) Every receipt issued by the Director-General of Lands for the purchase money of land contracted to be sold under the provisions of the Canterbury Educational Reserves Sale and Leasing Act 1876 , or any Act in amendment thereof or substitution therefor, shall be in duplicate, and the Director shall transmit one copy thereof to the Registrar. (2) The Registrar shall include the receipt in the provisional register book of his district, as if the receipt was a certificate under the hand of the Director-General of Lands evidencing payment of the purchase money of Crown lands; and, until the issue of a certificate of title for the same as hereinafter mentioned, all dealings with that land by the purchaser, and by those claiming through or under him, shall be entered on the provisional register only. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to preclude the registration in due form of any instrument requisite for giving effect to the provisions of any such Act as aforesaid and for vesting the land contracted to be sold as aforesaid in the purchaser named in the receipt; but, until the issue of a certificate of title for the land, no other dealings whatever with the land shall be registered save and except such as are hereinbefore authorised to be entered on the provisional register. (4) Upon the registration of a Crown grant for the said land, or of a certificate of title issued pursuant to a warrant in lieu of grant or pursuant to a certificate of the Director-General of Lands and the Chief Surveyor, and of a duly executed transfer to the purchaser, the Registrar shall cancel that grant or certificate of title as to the land transferred, and issue a certificate of title for the land to the purchaser or to such other person or persons, and subject to such memorials and entries thereon, as are necessary for giving effect to the dealings on the provisional register. Compare: 1915 No 35 App II; 1880 No 8 s 10; 1920 No 43 s 30; 1951 No 60 s 8 Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65) by substituting the words “ Director-General of Lands ” for the words “ Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Canterbury ” Subsections (2) and (4) were amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65) by substituting the words “ Director-General of Lands ” for the words “ Commissioner of Crown Lands ” .