Real Property (Amendment) Act 1979 (ACT)

N o . 16 of 1979

An Ordinance to amend the Real Property Ordinance 1925

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

REAL PROPERTY ( A M E N D M E N T ) ORDINANCE 1979

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Real Property (Amendment)

Ordinance 1979.'

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Real Property Ordinance 1925. 2

3. This Ordinance shall come into operation on 1 July 1979.

4. Section 48 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (4) " , and that instrument when so constructively embodied and stamped with the seal of the Registrar," and substituting " a n d " .

be deemed to be in accordance with the form in the schedule.

5. Section 139 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) " and 6 " and substituting", 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10".

6. Section 168 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the follow­ ing sections are substituted:

" 168. Wherever a document is required, under this Ordinance, to be in accordance with a form in a schedule, a document that is in a form having a like effect to the form in the schedule and that is stamped with, or bears a representation of the imprint of, the seal of the Registrar shall

"168A. (1) A person shall not cause to be printed a document

bearing a representation of the imprint of the seal of the Registrar except

with the approval of the Registrar.

Penalty: $500.

" ( 2 ) An approval referred to in sub-section (1) shall be in writing and shall specify the contents of the document to which the approval re­ lates and the number of copies of the document that the person may print.".

7. Section 169 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting

from sub-section (1) " e v e r y " and substituting "copies of each".

8. The Eighteenth Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is amended

by adding at the end thereof the following items:

"7	On lodging a request for an approval under section 168A—for each kind of
document to which the request relates 14
8	On lodging a request for the stamping of documents with the seal of the
Registrar—for each kind of document to which the request relates 14
9	For stamping documents with the seal of the Registrar in accordance with a request referred to in item 8—

(a)	where the number of documents to which the request relates does
not exceed 100 3
(b)	where the number of documents to which the request relates
exceeds 100—for each 100 documents or part of 100 documents . 3

10        For examining each instrument not stamped with the seal of the Registrar

and not bearing a representation of the imprint of that seal 14"

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.

2.   Ordinance No. 1, 1925 as amended by No. 12, 1925; No. 8, 1926; Nos. 15 and 21, 1927; No. 19, 1930; Nos. 26 and 34, 1933; No. 14, 1934; No. 15, 1936; No. 27, 1937; Nos. 15, 25 and 35, 1938; No. 16, 1940; No. 15, 1942; No. 9, 1951; No.16, 1956; No. 12, 1957; No. 7, 1961; No. 6, 1963; No. 46, 1967; No. 9, 1969; No. 6, 1970; No. 11, 1972; No. 33, 1975; Nos. 18, 47 and 65, 1977; and No. 24, 1978.