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LAND TITLES ACT 1980 - SECT 164

Powers of Court and Recorder

(1)  On the appearance before the Supreme Court of any person summoned or brought up by virtue of a warrant under section 163 , the Court may examine that person on oath, and, where the Court considers it necessary, may order that person to deliver up the certificate of title, grant, or duplicate registered dealing in accordance with section 163 , and on the refusal or neglect by that person to deliver it up pursuant to that order may commit that person to prison.
(2)  Where a person –
(a) who has been summoned pursuant to section 163 (2) cannot be found, so that the person cannot be arrested and brought before the Court for examination under section 163 (4) ; or
(b) has been committed to prison –
the Recorder may, if in the Recorder’s opinion the circumstances of the case require it, act as authorized by section 35 or section 160 (5) .



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