Section 82 — Land Transfer Act 1952: Person failing to surrender instrument may be summoned to Court

82 Person failing to surrender instrument may be summoned to Court (1) In case any such person refuses or neglects to comply with that request, or cannot be found, the Registrar may apply to the High Court for an order that the grant, certificate, or other instrument be delivered up as aforesaid. (2) If that person when served with notice of the application neglects or refuses to attend before the Court at the time therein appointed, the Court may issue a warrant authorising and directing the person so notified to be apprehended and brought before the Court for examination. Compare: 1915 No 35 s 75 The words “ High Court ” in subsection (1) were substituted, as from 1 April 1980, for the words “ Supreme Court ” pursuant to section 12 Judicature Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 124).