South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts8—Registration of transfers from one Commonwealth authority to another
(1) Where any land of
which a Commonwealth authority is the registered proprietor is by or pursuant
to any Act of the Commonwealth vested in another Commonwealth authority
(hereinafter called the "transferee authority ) the transferee authority may
apply to the Registrar-General to register it as the transferee of the land.
(2) The Commonwealth
authority so applying shall furnish the Registrar with a certificate signed by
a responsible officer of the authority stating the volume and folium or number
of the certificate or other instrument of title to the said land and
certifying that the land has become vested in the transferee authority, and
specifying the Act under which it became so vested.
(3) The
Registrar-General, if he is satisfied as to the title to the land of the
transferee authority, may deal with and give effect to the application as if
it were a duly executed and stamped memorandum of transfer of the land to the
transferee authority, lodged for registration on the day on which the
application was received by the Registrar-General.
(4) No fees shall be
payable to the Registrar-General in respect of any application, registration
or other act or matter done under this section for the purpose of procuring
the registration of the Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia as the
registered proprietor of land previously vested in the Commonwealth Bank of
Australia.
(5) Without limiting
the operation of any other provision of this Act, it
is declared that the word "land" in this section includes any mortgage of, or
other estate or interest in, land.