Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 28

28 .         Title may be given to excess of land occupied under Crown grant over land described in Crown grant

                If the land included in any application to bring land under this Act or for an amended certificate or for the amendment or replacement of a relevant graphic consist of a Crown town or suburban allotment or country location and it shall be found by survey or otherwise that by reason of erroneous measurements in the original Crown survey the actual dimensions of such section allotment or portion as marked on the ground exceed or fall short of the dimensions given in the Crown grant or certificate of title or relevant graphic of such land the Commissioner may direct the Registrar to create and register a certificate in respect of such land as if the dimensions marked on the ground had been the dimensions given in the Crown grant or certificate of title and to amend or replace, if necessary, any relevant graphic.

        [Section 28 amended: No. 81 of 1996 s. 13; No. 31 of 1997 s. 95; No. 6 of 2003 s. 11.]