A N N O V1CESIMO Q U I N T O
ELIZABETHE II REGINE
Act No. 84, 1976.
An Act to amend the Conveyancing Act, 1919. [Assented to,
2nd December, 1976.]
| Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in | BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative |
| Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— | |
| (Amendment) Act, 1976". |
1. This Act may be cited as the "Conveyancing
2. ( 1 ) This section and sections 1, 3 and 6 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.
( 2 ) Sections 4 and 5 shall, in their application to a provision of Schedules 1 - 7 , commence on the day on which that provision commences.
(3) Except as provided by subsection ( 4 ) , the several
provisions of Schedules 1 - 7 shall commence on the date of
assent to this Act.
( 4 ) The several provisions of Schedule 2 (Schedule 2
( 1 ) , (8) and ( 9 ) excepted) and Schedule 3 shall commence on such day or days as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.
3. This Act contains the following Schedules :—
SCHEDULE 1.—AMENDMENT TO PART III OF THE
CONVEYANCING ACT, 1 9 1 9 .
SCHEDULE 2.—AMENDMENTS TO PART V I OF THE
CONVEYANCING ACT, 1 9 1 9 .
SCHEDULE 3.—AMENDMENTS TO PART V I I OF THE
CONVEYANCING ACT, 1 9 1 9 .
SCHEDULE 4.—AMENDMENTS TO PART X X I I I OF THE
CONVEYANCING ACT, 1 9 1 9 .
SCHEDULE 5.—AMENDMENTS TO THE CONVEYANCING
ACT, 1 9 1 9 , BY WAY OF STATUTE LAW REVISION.
SCHEDULE 6.—AMENDMENT TO THE CONVEYANCING
ACT, 1 9 1 9 , BY WAY OF METRIC CONVERSION.
SCHEDULE 7.—AMENDMENT TO THE REGISTRATION
OF DEEDS ACT, 1 8 9 7 .
SCHEDULE 8.—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS.
4. The Conveyancing Act, 1919, is amended in the manner set forth in Schedules 1-6.
5. The Registration of Deeds Act, 1897, is amended in the manner set forth in Schedule 7.
6. Schedule 8 has effect.
SCHEDULE 1.
AMENDMENT TO PART III OF THE CONVEYANCING ACT,
1919.
Section 38 (1A), ( 1 B ) —
After section 38 ( l ) , insert:—
(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1), but without prejudice to any other method of signing, a deed is sufficiently signed by a person if—
(a)
by the direction and in the presence of that person the deed is signed in the name of
that person by another person; (b)
the signature is attested by a person who is not a party or signatory (except by way of attestation) to the deed; and
(c)
the person attesting the signature certifies in his attestation that he is a prescribed witness and that the signature was affixed by…