Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1972 (NSW)

CONVEYANCING (AMENDMENT) ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO PRIMO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 17,

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An Act to amend the law of property and to simplify and improve the practice of conveyancing; to make provision with respect to the interpretation of the word "brick" in restrictive building covenants; to make certain provisions with respect to options in leases; to make further provision with respect to the registration of plans; for these and other purposes to amend the Conveyancing Act, 1919, the Trustee Act, 1925, and the Real Property Act, 1900; and for purposes connected

therewith.	[Assented to, 29th March, 1972.]
BE

BE	it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows: —

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Conveyancing

(Amendment) Act, 1972".

(2) The Conveyancing Act, 1919, is in this Act

referred to as the Principal Act.

2.      The Principal Act is amended—

(a) (i) by inserting in section two at the end of the matter relating to Part VIII the following new matter :—

DIVISION 4.—Options in leases—ss. 133c-

133G.

(ii)   by omitting from the matter relating to Part XXIII the matter relating to Division 2.

(b)	by omitting from subsection three of section six the word "instruments" and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "dealings".

3 .      The Principal Act is further amended—

(a)	by omitting from the definition of "Bankruptcy" in subsection one of section seven the words "under any Act heretofore or for the time being in force" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "before or after the commencement of the Conveyancing (Amendment) Act, 1972";

(b)

(b)	by omitting from the same definition the figures "1899" and by inserting in lieu thereof the figures "1961";
(c)	by inserting in the same subsection next after the
definition of "Court" the following new

definition : —

"Dealing" has the same meaning as it has in the

Real Property Act, 1900.

(d)	by omitting from the definition of "Deed" in the same subsection the words "an instrument" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "a dealing";
(e)	by omitting from the same subsection the definition
of "Insane person," "Insane patient," and

"Incapable person";

(f)	by inserting in the same subsection next after the definition of "Land under the provisions of the Real Property Act, 1900," the following new definition : —

"Mental disability" means the legal disability by reason of which the property of a person subject thereto may, pursuant to the law from time to time in force with respect to mental health, be committed to the management and care of another person.

(g)	by omitting from the same subsection the definition of "Trust corporation" and by inserting in lieu thereof the following definition :—

"Trust corporation" means the Public Trustee or a trustee company or The Official…