(1)A person claiming any estate or interest in the land described in any notice issued by the Registrar under this Act may, before the registration of the certificate, lodge a caveat with the Registrar in the form in Schedule 3 to this Act forbidding the bringing of that land under this Act.

(2)Every caveat lodged under subsection (1) shall be signed by the caveator or by his or her agent, and shall particularise the estate or interest claimed; and the person lodging the caveat shall, if required by the Registrar, support the caveat by a statutory declaration stating the nature of the title under which the claim is made, and also deliver a perfect abstract of the title to that estate or interest.

(3)No caveat under this section shall be received unless some address or place in which a post office is situated shall be appointed in it as the place which notices and proceedings relating to the caveat may be served.