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TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 137

137 .         Lodging caveats for land already under this Act

        (1)         Any beneficiary or other person claiming any estate or interest in land under the operation of this Act or in any lease mortgage or charge under any unregistered instrument document or writing or under any equitable mortgage or charge by deposit without writing or by devolution in law or otherwise may lodge a caveat with the Registrar in an approved form forbidding the registration of any person as transferee or proprietor of and of any instrument affecting such estate or interest either absolutely or until after notice of the intended registration or dealing be given to the caveator or unless such instrument be expressed to be subject to the claim of the caveator as may be required in such caveat.

        (1A)         Every such caveat shall state the name and address of the person by whom or on whose behalf the same is lodged and (except in case of a caveat lodged by order of the Supreme Court or by the Registrar pursuant to the direction of the Commissioner as hereinafter provided) shall be signed by the caveator or by his agent.

        (1B)         The person lodging such caveat shall if required by the Registrar support the same by statutory declaration stating the nature of the estate or interest claimed and the title thereto and may withdraw any such caveat.

        (1C)         If such declaration when required by the Registrar be not lodged with him within 7 days from the date of such requisition the caveat shall be absolutely null and void.

        (1D)         A caveat under this section cannot be lodged unless one of the following is specified in it for the purposes of the service of notices in relation to the caveat —

            (a)         an address in Australia;

        [(b)         deleted]

            (c)         a way of receiving notices electronically (for example, an email address) that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

        (1E)         A number for a facsimile machine in Australia may be used for the purposes referred to in subsection (1D) if —

            (a)         a caveat under this section is lodged before the day on which the Transfer of Land Amendment Act 2022 section 31 comes into operation; and

            (b)         that number is specified in the caveat.

        (2)         A person claiming an interest in a proposed carbon right, carbon covenant or plantation interest may, before the relevant carbon right form, carbon covenant form or tree plantation agreement is registered, lodge a caveat under subsection (1) as if the person were claiming an interest in land.

        [Section 137 amended: 60 Vict. No. 22 s. 4; No. 17 of 1950 s. 38; No. 81 of 1996 s. 83 and 146(1); No. 56 of 2003 s. 17; No. 19 of 2010 s. 51; No. 2 of 2014 s. 76; No. 21 of 2022 s. 31.]



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