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Land Transfer Act 2017

Miscellaneous provisions - General provisions - Offences

218: Offences in relation to registration

You could also call this:

"Breaking the law by tricking people with land registration"

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You commit an offence if you try to trick people and make something happen with the registration of an instrument or information under the Land Transfer Act 2017. This includes making something get registered or noted, or destroying, removing, deleting, or altering something that is already registered. If you do this, you can get in trouble. You can get in trouble if you do something to an instrument or information that is registered under the Land Transfer Act 2017 on purpose to deceive people. If you are found guilty, you might go to prison for up to 7 years. This is a serious punishment for a serious offence.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
General provisions: Offences

218Offences in relation to registration

  1. A person commits an offence if the person, with intent to defraud,—

  2. brings about the registration or noting of an instrument or information or a matter or thing under this Act; or
    1. brings about the destruction, removal, deletion, or alteration of an instrument or information or a matter or thing registered or noted under this Act.

      1. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.