This Act may be cited as the Land Transfer (Foreign Governments) Act, 1945, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Transfer Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

For the purposes of this Act the term “representative” means—

The Government of any foreign State shall be deemed to be and to have always been capable of being registered as the proprietor of any estate or interest in land under the principal Act in the same manner as if it were a body corporate.

Any memorandum of transfer or other instrument purporting to transfer or in any way to affect land under the provisions of the principal Act may be executed on behalf of the Government of any foreign State by the senior representative in New Zealand of that State.

The fact that any such instrument that is presented for registration purports to have been executed on behalf of the Government of any foreign State by the senior representative in New Zealand of that State shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be sufficient evidence to the Registrar that the instrument has been executed under proper authority and is binding on the Government of that State.