In this Act, and in all instruments purporting to be made and executed under this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
Bankruptcy means the vesting in any person or persons of any estate or interest of a debtor for the benefit of creditors generally, by deed of arrangement or otherwise, under authority of any Court of competent jurisdiction
Crown grant means the grant of any land by the Crown, and includes certificates of title issued in lieu of grant
Dealing means every transfer, transmission, mortgage, lease, or encumbrance of any estate or interest under this Act
Department means Land Information New Zealand, or such other department or ministry as has, with the authority of the Prime Minister, for the time being assumed responsibility for the administration of this Act
Department: this definition was inserted, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123).
District means a land registration district under this Act
Each Registrar or every Registrar or the Registrar means the Registrar-General, acting in respect of each district
Each Registrar or every Registrar, or the Registrar: this definition was inserted, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123).
Endorsement, in addition to its ordinary meaning, includes anything written upon or at the foot of any document for giving effect to any of the purposes of this Act and any similar addition to an instrument in a medium other than paper:
Endorsement: this definition was amended, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123) by inserting the words “and any similar addition to an instrument in a medium other than paper:”
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Estate or interest means every estate in land, also any mortgage or charge on land under this Act
Former Land Transfer Act means the Land Transfer Act 1915, the Land Transfer Act 1908, and the Land Transfer Act 1885, and all amendments of any of those Acts, and includes every Act repealed by those Acts
instrument—
(a) means any printed or written document, map, or plan relating to the transfer of or other dealing with land, or evidencing title to land; and
Instrument: the original definition was amended, as from 6 November 1986, by section 3(2) Land Transfer Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 94) by inserting the words “; and includes a memorandum within the meaning of section 155A(1) of this Act”
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Instrument: this definition was substituted, as from 1 June 2002, by section 65(1) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11).
Land includes messuages, tenements, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of every kind and description, and every estate or interest therein, together with all paths, passages, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, easements, and privileges thereunto appertaining, plantations, gardens, mines, minerals, and quarries, and all trees and timber thereon or thereunder lying or being, unless specially excepted
medium includes—
(a) any electronic, electromagnetic, optical, digital, or photographic process or system; and
medium: this definition was inserted, as from 1 June 2002, by section 65(1) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11).
Mortgage means any charge on land created under the provisions of this Act for securing—
(c) The payment to the holders for the time being of any bonds, debentures, promissory notes, or other securities, negotiable or otherwise, made or issued by the mortgagor before or after the creation of that charge:
Mortgagee means the proprietor of a mortgage
Mortgagor means the proprietor of any estate or interest charged with a mortgage
paper instrument means an instrument that is not an electronic instrument
paper instrument: this definition was inserted, as from 1 June 2002, by section 65(1) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11).
Proprietor means any person seised or possessed of any estate or interest in land, at law or in equity, in possession or expectancy
register includes a computer register
register: this definition was inserted, as from 1 June 2002, by section 65(1) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11).
Registrar and Examiner
[Repealed]
Registrar and Examiner: this definition was repealed, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123).
Registrar-General, means the Registrar-General of Land appointed under section 4(1); and Registrar has the corresponding meaning
Registrar-General: this definition was substituted, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123).
Surveyor-General means the person holding office with that title under the Survey Act 1986 or otherwise
Surveyor General: this definition was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 11(1) State-Owned Enterprises Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 117) by substituting the words “Survey Act 1986”
for the words “Land Act 1948”
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The Land Transfer Acts means this Act, and includes any former Land Transfer Act and the Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002
The Land Transfer Acts: this definition was amended, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(1) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123) by inserting the words “and the Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998:”
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The Land Transfer Acts: this definition was amended, as from 1 June 2002, by section 65(1) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11), by substituting the words “and the Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002”
for the words “and the Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998”
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Transmission means the acquirement of title to an estate or interest by operation of law.