Land Titles Act 1980

The Recorder may on or after the appointed day cause notice to be given to any person requiring the person, within a time specified in the notice, not being a time less than 30 days from the date of the notice – to inform the Recorder in writing whether the person claims an estate or interest in land (not being registered land) specified in the notice; where the person claims an estate or interest by virtue of an assurance or other disposition or by devolution in law – to furnish to the Recorder a statement in an approved form; and to produce to the Recorder all instruments constituting or in any way affecting the person’s title to the land that are in the person’s possession or under the person’s control or in the possession or under the control of the mortgagee of the land except any instruments which a purchaser would not be entitled to require pursuant to section 35 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1884; and where the person claims an estate by the operation of a statute of limitations, to furnish to the Recorder such evidence in support of that claim as the person possesses.

Where the Recorder has given notice under subsection (1) the Recorder may bring any land specified in the notice under this Act by creating a folio of the Register for that land.

The Recorder shall, as far as possible, use the Recorder’s powers under this section so that by the operation of sections 17 and 18 and this section all land (other than Crown land) which is not registered land shall be brought under this Act.