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Land Transfer Act 2017

Miscellaneous provisions - General provisions - Registrar-General of Land

235: Registrar and other persons not personally liable

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"Registrar and staff are not personally responsible for honest mistakes"

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You are protected if the Registrar or their delegate makes a mistake. They are not personally liable for their actions when doing their job under this Act. They must have reasonably believed they were doing the right thing. You should know the Registrar or delegate can be liable if they act in bad faith. The law protects them if they make honest mistakes. You can compare this to s 243 for more information. The Registrar and their delegate have certain duties and powers. They are not liable for mistakes made in good faith. This means they are protected by law if they try to do the right thing.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
General provisions: Registrar-General of Land

235Registrar and other persons not personally liable

  1. Neither the Registrar nor a delegate of the Registrar is personally liable for any act or omission in performing or exercising or purporting to perform or exercise a function, duty, or power—

  2. under this Act; or
    1. that the Registrar or delegate reasonably believed he or she could perform or exercise.

      1. Subsection (1) does not apply if the Registrar or delegate acted, or omitted to act, in bad faith.

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