Land Titles Act 1980

Where a person is deprived of land by the registration of another person as proprietor pursuant to a vesting order under section 138D or section 138X, the date of deprivation shall, for the purpose of calculating the damages to which the first-mentioned person is entitled, be deemed to be –

in the case of a vesting order under section 138X, the date on which the first-mentioned person or the first-mentioned person’s predecessors in title lost possession of the land; and in the case of a vesting order under section 138D, the date mentioned in paragraph (a) or the date of the sale pursuant to which the vesting order was made, whichever is the earlier.