South Australian Current Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 273B

273B—Verification of authority guidelines

        (1)         The Registrar-General may issue guidelines (the "verification of authority guidelines ) to be observed by a party to a transaction, or the legal practitioner or registered conveyancer representing a party to a transaction, where the party, practitioner or conveyancer is required under this Act to verify his or her authority, or the authority of a party to the transaction, to enter into the transaction or to execute an instrument or document in connection with the transaction.

        (2)         The Registrar-General may from time to time cancel, vary or replace the verification of authority guidelines.

        (3)         The Registrar-General must ensure that current and superseded versions of the verification of authority guidelines are publicly available on a website maintained by the Registrar-General and in any other manner the Registrar-General considers appropriate.

        (4)         A reference in this Act to the verification of authority guidelines, in relation to an instrument or other document, is a reference to the verification of authority guidelines in force under this section at the time the authority of a party to enter into a transaction is verified (or purportedly verified).