Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 183

183 .         Commissioner may make vesting order in cases of completed purchase

                If it be proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that land under this Act has been sold by the proprietor and the whole of the purchase money paid and that the purchaser or those claiming under him have entered and taken possession under such purchase and such entry and possession have been acquiesced in by the vendor or his representatives but that no transfer or formal conveyance has ever been executed by the vendor and cannot be obtained by reason that the vendor is dead or residing out of the jurisdiction or cannot be found the Commissioner may in his discretion make a vesting order in the premises and the Registrar on being served with such order shall make the entries directed to be made by the last preceding section in this Act in the case of the vesting orders therein mentioned and the making or the omission to make such entries shall be attended by the same results as declared by the said section in respect of the vesting orders therein mentioned.