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LAND TITLE ACT 2000 - SECT 165

Disposing of instrument in certain circumstances

    (1)     The Registrar-General may, in accordance with a scheme to be prepared by him or her in consultation with the Northern Territory Archives Service, dispose of a document registered or deposited at the Land Titles Office that appears to the Registrar-General to be unnecessary for the purpose of establishing or evidencing any interest or right in or over land.

    (2)     The scheme may provide for disposing of documents by their destruction, their sale, their delivery to a former registered proprietor, or their delivery to any person or body for preservation as being of historic interest.

    (3)     Before destroying a document under this section, the Registrar-General must copy it in whatever way the Registrar-General considers appropriate unless exempted from doing so by regulations.

    (4)     A document may be disposed of under this section only in accordance with the restrictions or limitations (if any) that may be prescribed by regulations.



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