(1) A person may, on
payment of the prescribed fee and during such times as are prescribed by
regulation, inspect any of the following —
(a) a
registered certificate of title;
(b) a
plan or diagram relating to land that is the subject of a certificate of
title, including a graphic;
(ba) a
scheme document, community development statement or any item registered for a
community titles scheme under the Community Titles Act 2018 ;
(bb) a
scheme document or any item registered or recorded for a strata titles scheme
under the Strata Titles Act 1985;
(c) in
relation to land that is the subject of a digital title, the record of an
endorsement referred to in section 48(1)(b) in relation to the land;
(d) in
relation to land that is the subject of a paper title, the record of an entry
referred to in section 48(1)(c) in relation to a sublease of the land;
(e) a
registered Crown lease or Crown grant;
(f) a
registered instrument;
(g) a
caveat, power of attorney or discharge of mortgage lodged or deposited under
this Act;
(h) a
—
(i)
notification or memorial under this or any other Act; or
(ii)
warrant or writ of execution or court order,
that is registered,
entered or otherwise noted on a certificate of title or lodged or deposited
under this Act;
(i)
an application made under this Act;
(j) a
memorandum filed under section 54;
(k) any
other document or information that is derived from records and dealings in
relation to land under the operation of this Act and is prescribed for the
purposes of this subsection by the regulations.
(2) The Registrar may
produce to a person who wishes to inspect any document referred to in
subsection (1) a copy of the document that the person wishes to inspect and
the copy may be in such medium as is approved by the Registrar for the
purposes of this section.
(3) The Registrar, on
receiving payment of the prescribed fee, shall provide to a person applying
for the same a copy or print-out of any document referred to in subsection (1)
and the copy or print-out may be in an approved form.
(4) Subsection (5)
applies if —
(a) 2 or
more counterpart documents are lodged electronically under the
Electronic Conveyancing Act 2014 section 7(1); and
(b)
those counterpart documents are consolidated electronically into one document,
with or without the addition of further material.
(5) If this subsection
applies —
(a) the
consolidated document, but not those counterpart documents, is available for
inspection in accordance with subsection (1); and
(b) a
copy of the consolidated document, but not of the counterpart documents, may
be produced in accordance with subsection (2); and
(c) a
copy or print-out of the consolidated document, but not of the counterpart
documents, is available for purchase in accordance with subsection (3); and
(d)
section 239B applies as if the consolidated document, but not the counterpart
documents, were a document referred to in subsection (1).
[Section 239 inserted: No. 6 of 2003 s. 80;
amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 140; No. 60 of 2006 s. 116; No. 2 of 2014 s. 90;
No. 30 of 2018 s. 204; No. 32 of 2018 s. 265.]
[ 239A. Deleted: No. 60 of 2006 s. 117.]