Version No. 142
Property Law Act 1958
No. 6344 of 1958
Version incorporating amendments as at
1 July 2024
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1Short title and commencement
2Repeals and savings
3Definitions
Part I—Registration of conveyances etc. affecting land other than land under the Transfer of Land Act. Deposit of documents
5Registrar-General
6Registration of deeds, conveyances etc.
13Fees to be paid on registration
15Deeds etc. may be deposited with Registrar-General
15ADeposited documents
15BCourt may order deposit of documents
15CPerson may direct document to be deposited
15DDeposit of document without instructions
16Deeds etc. deposited may be inspected etc.
17False oaths and affirmations made punishable
Part II—The general law of property and conveyancing
18Definitions
18ALand may be assured in fee simple
Division 1—General principles
Subdivision 1—Miscellaneous
19AInterests in land under the Statute of Uses
19Power to dispose of all rights and interests in land
20Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land, to cease
21Husband and wife to be counted as two persons
22Vesting orders etc. of legal estates operating as conveyances
23Abstract of title to legal estates
24Effect of possession of documents
25Interests of persons in possession
26Presumption that parties are of full age
27Alien friends may hold etc. real and personal property
28Power for corporations to hold property as joint tenants
28ALiability of co-owner to account
28BCertain contracts with minors to be valid
29Receipts by married minors
30Conveyances on behalf of patients
Subdivision 2—Dispositions on trust for sale
31Duration of trusts for sale
32Power to postpone sale
33Consents to the execution of a trust for sale
34Purchaser not to be concerned with the trusts of proceeds of sale
35Powers conferred on trustees for sale
36Delegation of powers of management by trustees for sale
37Powers of Court where trustees for sale refuse to exercise powers
38Trust for sale of mortgaged property where right of redemption is barred
39Implied trust for sale in personalty settlements
40Application of this Division to personal representatives
Division 2—Contracts, conveyances and other instruments
Contracts
41Stipulations in a contract
42Provisions as to contracts
43Application of section 42
44Statutory commencements of title
45Other statutory conditions of sale
46Adoption of conditions of sale in Third Schedule
48Stipulations preventing a purchaser etc. from employing own legal practitioner to be void
49Applications to the Court by vendor and purchaser
50Discharge of incumbrances by the Court on sales or exchanges
Conveyances and other Instruments
51Lands lie in grant only
52Conveyances to be by deed
53Instruments required to be in writing
54Creation of interests in land by parol
55Savings in regard to sections 53 and 54
56Persons not named as parties may take interest in land etc.
57Description of deeds
58Provisions as to supplemental instruments
59Conditions and certain covenants not implied
60Power to dispose of fee-simple by deed without words of inheritance
61Definitions of expressions used in deeds and other instruments
61AConstruction of references to repealed Acts
62General words implied in conveyances
63All estate clause implied
64Production and safe custody of documents
65Reservation of legal estates
66Confirmation of past transactions
67Receipt in…