Victorian Numbered Acts

LAND LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO. 42 OF 2017) - SECT 6

After 26W of the Transfer of Land Act 1958 insert —

        " 26X     Registrar may bring land under this Act

    (1)     The Registrar may make enquiries with municipal councils, statutory authorities or other persons for personal information that identifies ratepayers and mortgagors of land, for the purpose of comparing that information with information retained by the Registrar or the Registrar-General in relation to land that is to be brought under this Act.

    (2)     For the purpose of bringing land under this Act, a municipal council, statutory authority or mortgagee may disclose personal information that identifies who is a ratepayer or mortgagor of the land.

    (3)     The Registrar may create a provisional folio for land to be brought under this Act in the name of the person who appears to be a freehold owner of the land.

        26Y     Provisional folio becomes ordinary folio after 15 years

A provisional folio of land brought under this Act becomes an ordinary folio, unless an ordinary folio of the land has otherwise been created, 15 years after the creation of the provisional folio.".

Part 3—Amendment of the Transfer of Land Act 1958—Recordings in the Register and other matters