Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AIRPORTS (TRANSITIONAL) ACT 1996 - SECT 16

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   any right, title and interest in particular land vests in the Commonwealth under this Part; and

  (b)   there is lodged with a land registration official a certificate that:

  (i)   is signed by an authorised person; and

  (ii)   identifies the land, whether by reference to a map or otherwise; and

  (iii)   states that the right, title and interest has become vested in the Commonwealth under this Part.

Note:   Authorised person is defined by subsection   ( 4).

  (2)   The land registration official may:

  (a)   register the matter in a way that is the same as, or similar to, the way in which dealings in land of that kind are registered; and

  (b)   deal with, and give effect to, the certificate.

  (3)   A document that appears to be a certificate under subsection   ( 1) is taken to be such a certificate, and to have been properly given, unless the contrary is established.

  (4)   In this section:

"authorised person" means:

  (a)   the Finance Minister ; or

  (b)   a person authorised by the Finance Minister , in writing, for the purposes of this section.