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LIBRARIES ACT 1988 - SECT 44

Transfers, conveyances and surrenders generally

    (1)     On the conveyance or the registration of a transfer of land to the Crown under this Part—

        (a)     any Order in Council reserving the land and any Crown grant of the land is revoked; and

        (b)     the land is deemed to be unalienated land of the Crown freed and discharged from all encumbrances, trusts, conditions, reservations, limitations, exceptions, estates or interests; and

        (c)     the trustees of the land immediately before its conveyance or the registration of its transfer are, in respect of the land, discharged from all further liabilities under the trust.

    (2)     If land is transferred or conveyed to the Crown under this Part, the Governor in Council may grant the land to the council of the municipal district in which the land is located subject to any conditions, restrictions, limitations, reservations and exceptions that the Governor in Council determines.

    (3)     On the conveyance or the registration of a transfer of land to a municipal council under this Part—

        (a)     the land is freed from all trusts, conditions, restrictions, limitations or provisions affecting the land except limitations as to depth; and

        (b)     the trustees of the land immediately before its conveyance or the registration of its transfer are, in respect of the land, discharged from all further liabilities under the trust.

S. 44(4) substituted by No. 85/1998 s. 24(Sch. item 39.2).

    (4)     On production of a certificate signed by the Minister as to any authority to surrender, transfer or convey land under this Part, and on production of any other instrument that the Registrar of Titles requests, the Registrar of Titles must make any recordings in the Register that are necessary because of the operation of this section.



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