Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 181A

181A .         Commissioner and Registrar may require supporting documentation or evidence or verification

        (1)         In this section —

        lodge includes deposit, present and file.

        (2)         For the purposes of performing any function under this Act or any other Act, the Commissioner or the Registrar may require any person who lodges any document to do, or to arrange for someone to do, all or any of the following —

            (a)         to submit or produce any document supporting or authenticating the document;

            (b)         to provide specified information relating to the document;

            (c)         to submit or produce evidence relating to a certification given in or with the document, including (without limitation) —

                  (i)         evidence showing the truth of the certification;

                  (ii)         evidence that the person who gave the certification was entitled to give it;

            (d)         to verify any document, information, evidence, certification or other matter by statutory declaration.

        (3)         For the purposes of performing any function under this Act or any other Act, the Commissioner or the Registrar may, in relation to a document lodged or to be lodged, require any person to do, or to arrange for someone to do, all or any of the following —

            (a)         to give a certification in or in relation to the document;

            (b)         to verify the identity and authority of —

                  (i)         any person who is a party to the conveyancing transaction to which the document relates;

                  (ii)         any person who signed or authorised the signing of the document.

        (4)         A requirement made under subsection (2) or (3) —

            (a)         must be given by notice served on the person to whom the requirement relates; and

            (b)         must specify a period within which the requirement must be complied with; and

            (c)         may specify how the requirement is to be complied with.

        (5)         If a requirement made under subsection (2) or (3) in relation to a document is not complied with within the period specified in accordance with subsection (4)(b), the Commissioner or, as the case requires, the Registrar —

            (a)         may reject the document; and

            (b)         if the document is rejected, must notify the refusal to the person lodging the document.

        (6)         If a document is rejected under subsection (5), section 192(2) applies as if the document had been rejected under section 192(1).

        [Section 181A inserted: No. 2 of 2014 s. 77.]