Registrar-General may take steps to rectify Register in case of fraud
138A Registrar-General may take steps to rectify Register in case of fraud
The Registrar-General may, in relation to the settlement of a claim in accordance with section 135, take any of the steps set out in subsection (2) that are required to rectify the Register (including by registering a person as proprietor of land) if the Registrar-General is satisfied that—
the person has been deprived of land, or an estate or interest in land, as a result of fraud, and
the current registered proprietor acquired the estate or interest in land through fraud.
The Registrar-General may do one or more of the following—
cancel or amend a folio of the Register,
cancel, amend or make a recording in a folio of the Register,
create a new folio of the Register,
create a new edition of a computer folio,
(Repealed)
(Repealed)
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