Real Property Act 1900

The Registrar-General shall not register any dealing purporting to transfer or otherwise to deal with or affect any estate or interest in land under the provisions of this Act, except in the manner herein provided, and the Registrar-General may reject any dealing which the Registrar-General is satisfied should not be registered.

The Registrar-General—

may refuse to register, or may reject, any dealing lodged for registration, and

may reject any memorandum, caveat or priority notice lodged with the Registrar-General,

The Registrar-General may—

refuse to accept for registration—

a dealing purporting to transfer or otherwise to deal with or affect any estate or interest in land under the provisions of this Act, or

an application to effect a change in the name of a registered proprietor, or

refuse to register such a dealing or application, or

reject such a dealing or application,

For the purposes of subsection (1B), a dealing or application is taken to be accompanied by a notice in the approved form if, before the presentation of the dealing or application, a notice relating to the dealing or application is lodged electronically in a form and in the manner approved by the Registrar-General.

The Registrar-General may, at the Registrar-General’s discretion, register a dealing notwithstanding any error therein or omission therefrom and, in such case, the error or omission shall not invalidate the registration of the dealing.

Instead of rejecting any dealing containing a patent error, the Registrar-General may of the Registrar-General’s own motion correct the error by marginal notation on the dealing, and the dealing so corrected shall have the like validity and effect as if the error had not been made.