Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

TRANSFER OF LAND REGULATIONS 2004 - REG 5A

5A .         Priority processing of certain documents

        (1)         If the person lodging a transfer, mortgage, discharge of mortgage, withdrawal of caveat, survivorship application, or enduring power of attorney, pays the fee in Schedule 1 Division 7 for priority processing, the document will be given priority for attention by the Registrar over other documents that do not relate to the land to which the document relates, subject to this regulation.

        (2)         A person cannot request priority processing for a document referred to in subregulation (1) if —

            (a)         more than 4 of such documents are lodged simultaneously; or

            (b)         the document is connected to any land in relation to which there is a document lodged previously on which processing has not been completed; or

            (c)         the document and any other lodged document connected with it relate to more than 5 lots; or

            (d)         the document is lodged simultaneously with a document that is not referred to in subregulation (1); or

            (e)         the document is lodged simultaneously with an enduring power of attorney.

        (3)         If the fee for priority processing is paid in respect of a document referred to in subregulation (1) and a requisition is raised on the document, the document ceases to have priority for attention unless a further fee for priority processing is paid in respect of it.

        [Regulation 5A inserted in Gazette 24 Jun 2005 p. 2761‑2.]

[ 6, 7.         Deleted in Gazette 22 May 2009 p. 1701.]