Real Property Act 1900

Subject to the State Records Act 1998, the Registrar-General may—

destroy a paper document that the Registrar-General is not under a duty to deliver or issue to a person, whether or not it is part of the Register, or

deliver a paper document that the Registrar-General is empowered to destroy under paragraph (a) to a person who, in the Registrar-General’s opinion, intends to preserve it for historical purposes.

Before destroying a document under subclause (1)(a) the Registrar-General must make a reproducible copy of the document if—

for a document that is part of the Register—it evidences a subsisting interest, or

for a document that is not part of the Register—the Registrar-General would, but for subclause (1)(a), have a duty to preserve it.

The Registrar-General must preserve a reproducible copy of a document referred to in subclause (2)(a) or (b) for as long as the interest evidenced by the document subsists or for as long as the Registrar-General would, but for subclause (1)(a), have had a duty to preserve the document.

If a reproducible copy of a document is preserved under subclause (3) and that document would, if it had not been destroyed under subclause (1)(a), be part of the Register, whether for all purposes or for the purpose only of section 96B, the reproducible copy is part of the Register for all purposes or for that purpose.

In this clause—