Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 149

149 .         Instrument effecting proposed dealing entitled to priority if lodged within 48 hour stay granted under s. 148

                If within the said period of 48 hours a properly perfected instrument effecting the proposed dealing be duly lodged for registration such instrument shall have priority over any other instrument which may be lodged for registration after the time mentioned in the search certificate and the same shall be registered notwithstanding any caveat, court order or application by assignee in bankruptcy which may have been lodged with the Authority after the time mentioned in such search certificate.

        [Section 149 amended: No. 81 of 1996 s. 90; No. 59 of 2004 s. 140; No. 60 of 2006 s. 118(1).]