South Australian Current Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 154B

154B—Effect of priority notices

        (1)         If an instrument affecting land is lodged in the Lands Titles Registration Office or served on the Registrar-General while a priority notice is in force in relation to the land, the instrument may not be registered or recorded in the Register Book or the Register of Crown Leases until the priority notice ceases to have effect.

        (2)         However, a priority notice in force in relation to land does not prevent the Registrar-General from registering, recording or giving effect to the following in relation to the land:

            (a)         an instrument identified in the priority notice as an instrument to which priority is to be given (provided the instruments identified in the notice are lodged in accordance with section 154A(4));

            (b)         any other instrument with the written consent of the person who lodged the priority notice;

            (c)         the receipt, removal, extension or withdrawal of a caveat;

            (d)         a statutory order or the cancellation of a statutory order;

            (e)         a statutory authorisation or the cancellation of a statutory authorisation;

            (f)         an order of a court;

            (g)         a warrant of sale;

            (h)         a transfer consequential on a statutory charge, order or authorisation, a warrant of sale or the exercise of a statutory power of sale by a statutory body or officer;

                  (i)         an instrument lodged by the Crown;

            (j)         an instrument relating to an interest in land that, in the opinion of the Registrar-General, would not affect the interest to which the priority notice relates;

            (k)         a statutory charge or the discharge, removal or cancellation of a statutory charge;

            (l)         a heritage agreement, or the variation or termination of a heritage agreement, under the Heritage Places Act 1993 or the Native Vegetation Act 1991 ;

            (m)         an agreement, or the recision or amendment of an agreement, under Part 14 of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 (including an agreement under Part 5 of the Development Act 1993 that is taken to be an agreement under that Part of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 );

            (n)         an alteration to the South Australian Heritage Register under the Heritage Places Act 1993 ;

            (o)         a worker's lien, or the cessation or withdrawal of a worker's lien, under the Worker's Liens Act 1893 ;

            (p)         a notice or acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act 1969 ;

            (q)         an environment performance agreement, or the termination of an environment performance agreement, under the Environment Protection Act 1993 ;

            (r)         an Aboriginal heritage agreement, or an agreement varying or terminating an Aboriginal heritage agreement, entered into under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 ;

            (s)         an access agreement, or the variation of an access agreement, entered into under the Recreational Greenways Act 2000 ;

            (t)         a management agreement, or the rescission or amendment of a management agreement, entered into under the River Murray Act 2003 ;

            (u)         the amendment or rescission of, or any other dealing with, a statutory encumbrance (within the meaning of Part 19AB) not otherwise mentioned in this subsection;

                  (v)         an application under this Act by a person to whom land has been transmitted for registration as proprietor of the land;

            (va)         an application under this Act by a surviving joint proprietor to have the death of a joint proprietor recorded in the Register Book;

            (w)         any other prescribed instrument, order, agreement or matter or instrument, order, agreement or matter of a prescribed class.

        (3)         If, in the opinion of the Registrar-General, it is apparent from the information included in a priority notice that the notice is intended to give priority to a particular instrument, but the instrument is not accurately identified in the notice, the Registrar-General may nevertheless give priority to the instrument as if it had been so identified.

        (4)         Lodgement of a priority notice in relation to a portion of the land comprised in a certificate of title where the land is the subject of a plan of division or a plan of community division that has not been deposited by the Registrar-General does not prevent the Registrar-General from dealing with the application for the division of the land to which the plan relates.