Times for registration
4 Times for registration
That all judgments, deeds, wills, conveyances or instruments in writing which shall be duly registered within the respective times next mentioned, that is to say, all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, except wills, which, if executed in Western Australia or its Dependencies, shall be registered within 2 months, or which, if executed in any other place, shall be registered within 8 months after the time of execution thereof respectively, and all wills which, if the devisor die in Western Australia or its Dependencies, shall be registered within 2 months, or which, if the devisor die in any other place, shall be registered within 12 months after the decease of every devisor respectively, and all future judgments, which shall be registered within 2 months after the entry or recording thereof, shall severally be in like manner entitled to priority, and shall take effect respectively by relation to the date thereof only in the same manner as if this Act had never been made.
[Section 4 amended: No. 14 of 1974 s. 9.]
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