This Act may be cited as the Land Transfer Amendment Act 1991, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Transfer Act 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into force on the day after the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

This subsection substituted section 235 of the principal act.

The Land Transfer Amendment Act 1963 is hereby consequentially amended by omitting from section 16(2) the words “, without fee or on payment of the prescribed fee, as the Registrar thinks fit”.

Section 17 of the Land Transfer Amendment Act 1966 is hereby consequentially repealed.

For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the prescription, demanding, payment, or receipt, before the commencement of this Act, of any fee was as valid and effectual as if subsections (1) and (2) of this section had come into force on the commencement of the principal Act.