Conveyancing Act 1919 No 6
Current version for 30 January 2012 to date (accessed 23 May 2013 at 15:22)
Part 14

Part 14 Married women

147   Acknowledgment by married woman not necessary

(1)  It shall not be necessary to the validity of any deed or instrument executed by a married woman after the commencement of this Act, that such deed or instrument be acknowledged by her.
(2)  This section applies to land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900, and section one hundred and nine of that Act is hereby repealed; that section shall be deemed not to have applied in any case where a married woman has executed any instrument registered under that Act in respect of her separate property, or in exercise of a power of appointment or to any instrument executed for the purposes of that Act by a married woman, with the written consent of her husband, in favour of a purchaser in good faith.

148   Married woman may by deed dispose of land or reversionary interest in property etc

(1)  A married woman may, by deed:
(a)  dispose of any land, or
(b)  dispose of any future or reversionary interest in property, or
(c)  release or extinguish or disclaim or contract not to exercise any power in regard to property, or
(d)  release her right or equity to a settlement out of any property, or
(e)  disclaim any interest in any property.
(2)  (Repealed)

149–151   (Repealed)

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