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2020

Customer Information Bulletin 203 (DOCX, 256.9 KB)

  • Lodging fees from 1 July – no change
  • Search fees from 1 July 2020
  • Victorian Land Registry Services appoints new CEO
  • Update on the generic residual document 'Record-Notice-Transfer of Land Act - Section 104'
  • Requirements for attached PDF documents supporting all residual documents
  • SPEAR Electronic Lodgement Network (ELN) reminder
  • Caveats and parts of land
  • Abbreviated names of companies and incorporated associations in the Register

Customer Information Bulletin 202 (DOCX, 265.0 KB)

  • Update to the generic residual document 'Record-Notice-Transfer of Land Act - Section 104'
  • Update to residual documents in PEXA

Customer Information Bulletin 201 (DOCX, 265.1 KB)

  • Important reminders and updates
  • New generic residual document 'Record-Notice-Transfer of Land Act - Section 104'
  • SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network update
  • Temporary suspension of Subscriber Compliance Examinations
  • Victorian Water Register – lodging documents

Customer Information Bulletin 200 (DOCX, 273.1 KB)

  • Changes to Registration Services
  • New generic residual dealing type in PEXA 'Record-Notice-Transfer of Land Act – Section 104'
  • SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network Update
  • Update to the issuing of paper Certificate of Titles
  • Victorian Water Register – lodging documents
  • Advice to all Subscribers and LUV Customers

Customer Information Bulletin 199 (DOCX, 248.9 KB)

  • Advice to all Subscribers and LUV customers – coronavirus (COVID-19) related impacts
  • Notices of Action and new Court proceedings

Customer Information Bulletin 198 (DOCX, 251.5 KB)

  • Applications under section 31 Transfer of Land Act 1958
  • Notes for Subscribers on Residual Document type

Customer Information Bulletin 197 (DOCX, 249.8 KB)

  • Participation Rules and Operating Requirements for electronic conveyancing transactions

Customer Information Bulletin 196 (DOCX, 251.8 KB)

  • Reminder: Elimination of cheques as a payment method
  • Participation Rules and Operating Requirements for electronic conveyancing transactions
  • Statutory Declarations from 1 January 2020
  • Reminders and directions to Representatives signing Registry Instruments on behalf of their clients

Customer Information Bulletin 195 (DOCX, 248.0 KB)

  • Support for bushfire-affected communities: tax and fee relief

2019

Customer Information Bulletin 194 (DOCX, 246.9 KB)

  • Participation Rules and Operating Requirements for electronic conveyancing transactions
  • Review of the Intergovernmental Agreement for an Electronic Conveyancing National Law
  • New guidance for e-settlement subscribers and their instructing practitioners
  • Reminder: Christmas and new year closure

Customer Information Bulletin 193 (DOCX, 253.9 KB)

  • Christmas and new year closure
  • New Customer call centre phone number
  • LANDATA® website details – reminder
  • Elimination of cheques as a payment method
  • Residual documents in PEXA – an update
  • New dealing requirements – dealings lodged using an ELN
  • Reminder: Caveator's consent – change to requirement to produce consent to the Registrar

Customer Information Bulletin 192 (DOCX, 258.3 KB)

  • Reminder: Phase out of Plan Acceptance counter services
  • SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network – additional transactions available
  • Residual documents
  • Lodging plans and plan-based applications
  • Application under section 14 Transfer of Land Act 1958 - lodgment process

Customer Information Bulletin 191 (DOCX, 258.7 KB)

  • Reminder: Phase out of Plan Acceptance counter services
  • Strata Plan enhancement project
  • Historical aerial photographs
  • ELN Subscriber Compliance Examination
  • Applications under section 47 of the Transfer of Land Act 1958
  • Defining burdened and benefited land in restrictive covenants in transfers and plans

Customer Information Bulletin 190 (DOCX, 178.9 KB)

  • Reminder: Mandatory electronic lodgment 1 August
  • Review of the Intergovernmental Agreement for an Electronic Conveyancing National Law (‘IGA Review’)
  • Notices of Acquisition
  • New LANDATA website address
  • Phase out of Plan Acceptance counter services
  • Verification of Identity
  • Registrar’s verification of identity requirements regarding transfer of control of eCTs
  • Registrar’s power to rectify errors in the Register
  • Reminder on creating restrictive covenants in transfers and plans
  • SPEAR ELN information session

Customer Information Bulletin 189 (DOCX, 170.9 KB)

  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Release of Residual documents in PEXA and 1 August 2019 mandate

Customer Information Bulletin 188 (DOCX, 106.9 KB)

  • New lodgment fees for 1 July 2019

Customer Information Bulletin 187 (DOCX, 168.4 KB)

  • 1 August 2019 – lodging electronically
  • New functionality in SRO and PEXA ELN
  • Removal of warnings on provisional folios after 15 years
  • Caveator’s consent – change to requirement to produce consent to Registrar

Customer Information Bulletin 186 (DOCX, 103.9 KB)

  • Bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title to electronic Certificates of Title
  • National electronic conveyancing – Model Participation Rules Guidance Notes
  • A conveyancer’s and lawyer’s obligation to know who their client is
  • Release of the first residual document
  • Joint Lodgments after October 2018

Customer Information Bulletin 185 (DOCX, 109.9 KB)

  • Operating requirements and participation rules for electronic conveyancing
  • SPEAR electronic lodgment network participation rules
  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Release of the first residual document
  • Removal of a Registrar’s Caveat lodged on behalf of a represented person
  • Trusts in the Register

2018

Customer Information Bulletin 184 (DOCX, 124.0 KB)

  • Christmas and new year closure
  • Converting paper certificates of title to electronic
  • New Electronic Lodgment Network Operator (ELNO)
  • Extension of priority notices and guidelines on priority notices
  • Recording judgments, decrees, orders or processes of execution of a court
  • Deceased registered proprietors
  • Which caveats can be lodged using an ELN?
  • Update on 100% electronic lodgment

Customer Information Bulletin 183 (DOCX, 118.1 KB)

  • Christmas and new year closure
  • Creating restrictive covenants in transfers
  • Remaining instrument types (residual documents) in the Electronic Lodgment Network
  • Australian Institute of Conveyancers workshop on processing transactions electronically

Customer Information Bulletin 182 (DOCX, 182.3 KB)

  • Mandatory electronic lodgment – 1 October 2018

Customer Information Bulletin 181 (DOCX, 103.7 KB)

  • Treasurer announces private operator for land registry

Customer Information Bulletin 180 (DOCX, 232.2 KB)

  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions version 5 – update to section 6 'Electronic Instruments'
  • Progression towards 100% electronic lodgment

Customer Information Bulletin 179 (DOCX, 107.2 KB)

  • New lodgment and search fees from 1 July 2018
  • Reminder and update on creating restrictive covenants in transfers
  • Getting ready for 100% electronic lodgment in August 2019
  • Legal entity names

Customer Information Bulletin 178 (DOCX, 110.2 KB)

  • New lodgement and search fees from 1 July 2018
  • Naming easements in plans
  • Plantation Licence Register
  • Registrar's requirements for paper conveyancing transactions – Transfers of land and survivorship
  • applications
  • Electronic instrument statements

Customer Information Bulletin 177 (DOCX, 159.7 KB)

  • Changes to Transfer of land forms – New requirements for creating restrictive covenants in transfers

Customer Information Bulletin 176 (DOCX, 106.6 KB)

  • Commercialisation of land registry functions
  • Participation Rules and Operating Requirements for electronic conveyancing transactions
  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions – Transfers of land and survivorship applications
  • Improved timeframes for registering subdivision plans of 10 or more lots
  • Removing staged lots from plans of subdivision
  • Notices of Action on a Folio


Customer Information Bulletin 175 (DOCX, 111.2 KB)

  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title to electronic Certificates of Title
  • New folio output for deceased estates
  • Electronic lodgment workshops

Customer Information Bulletin 174 (DOCX, 108.4 KB)

  • Bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title to electronic Certificates of Title
  • Transition period ends for using 'old style' forms
  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions and dates for transition to 100% digital
  • SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network
  • Minor registered proprietors
  • Caveats requiring an attached plan

2017

Customer Information Bulletin 173 (DOCX, 102.8 KB)

  • Christmas and new year closure
  • Transition period ends for use 'old style' forms
  • Registrar’s requirements for paper conveyancing transactions
  • SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network pilot update
  • Electronic service of court documents

Customer Information Bulletin 172 (DOCX, 287.6 KB)

  • Change to nominating eCTs to electronic conveyancing transactions
  • Important dates for electronic and paper transactions
  • Transition to 100% digital lodgment
  • Using new forms containing certifications
  • Entitlement to sign registry instruments

Customer Information Bulletin 171 (DOCX, 110.9 KB)

  • Important dates for electronic and paper transactions
  • Transition to 100% digital lodgment
  • Next round of bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title
  • Entitlements to sign registry instruments
  • Ordering plan numbers for plans of subdivision, plans of consolidation and title plans
  • Reserve with 'purpose' on a plan of subdivision
  • Land Legislation Amendment Act 2017

Customer Information Bulletin 170 (DOCX, 109.1 KB)

  • Creating restrictive covenants in transfers and restrictions in plans
  • Consultation on trial of new process enabling five-day subdivision plan registration
  • Enduring powers of attorney – confirming a transaction is not a conflict of interest
  • Section 60 applications
  • Answering requisitions, stopped case notices and other correspondence
  • Victorian Water Register – grants of representation for certain water shares
  • Land Use Victoria has moved to 2 Lonsdale Street

Customer Information Bulletin 169 (DOCX, 84.1 KB)

  • Land Use Victoria moving to 2 Lonsdale Street

Customer Information Bulletin 168 (DOCX, 104.8 KB)

  • Land Use Victoria is moving - office closure
  • Refinance transactions to be lodged electronically
  • Transferring control of an electronic Certificate of Title (eCT)
  • 22 July 2017 – Bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title to electronic Certificates of Title
  • Status of Lodging Book and Registrar’s new approved forms
  • New forms
  • National mortgage form
  • Verification of identity (VOI) for people not using a conveyancer or lawyer – non-represented parties
  • Consideration in instruments
  • Transition to 100% digital lodgement
  • Strata enhancement project

Customer Information Bulletin 167 (DOCX, 104.3 KB)

  • 22 July 2017 - Bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title

Customer Information Bulletin 166 (DOCX, 1.7 MB)

  • New forms
  • Transition to 100% digital lodgment
  • New process enables five-day subdivision registration
  • New website for Land Use Victoria
  • Land Use Victoria is moving

Customer Information Bulletin 165 (DOCX, 93.9 KB)

  • New lodgement and search fees from 1 July 2017
  • New forms
  • New website for Land Use Victoria
  • Creating restrictive covenants

Customer Information Bulletin 164 (DOCX, 98.8 KB)

  • Update to Registrar's requirements for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Update to operating requirements and participation rules for electronic conveyancing
  • SPEAR electronic lodgment network participation rules
  • New process for more than 10 lots to enable five-day subdivision registration
  • Applications to record, vary or release a restrictive covenant
  • Enforceability of restrictive covenants and restrictions recorded on a folio
  • Availability and use of new forms
  • New DELWP website
  • Land Use Victoria moving to 2 Lonsdale St

Customer Information Bulletin 163 (DOCX, 125.8 KB)

  • Registrar's requirements version 2 for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Transitioning to 100% digital timeline
  • Client Authorisations, certification and new forms – Transition period
  • Lodgement of paper transactions where the Certificate of Title is electronic (eCT)
  • Changes to over-the-counter lodgements
  • Land Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
  • Land Use Victoria moving to 2 Lonsdale St

Customer Information Bulletin 162 (DOCX, 143.6 KB)

  • Registrar's requirements for paper conveyancing transactions – National Mortgage Form, client authorisations and certifications, refinance transactions to be lodged electronically
  • Forms – changes to form approvals
  • Delay to change of practice for Not in Common Ownership (NICO) plans
  • New lodgement option at Plan Acceptance – Plan Lodgement drop off
  • Update on bulk conversion of paper Certificate of Titles to electronic certificates of Titles, October 2016
  • Confirming note on priority notices

2016

Customer Information Bulletin 161 (DOCX, 125.0 KB)

  • Land Registry Services – Christmas and new year closures
  • Priority notices
  • Announcing Land Use Victoria
  • Strata enhancement project
  • Electronic and paper Certificates of Title
  • Voiding Certificates of Title for common property folios
  • Victorian Water Register – general information on lodging documents for recording
  • Participation Rules and Operating Requirements for electronic conveyancing transactions

Customer Information Bulletin 160  (DOCX, 128.0 KB)

  • 22 October 2016 - Bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title to electronic Certificates of Title
  • Electronic and paper Certificates of Title

Customer Information Bulletin 159 (DOCX, 83.4 KB)

  • Registrar's requirements for paper conveyancing transactions - lodging mortgages and discharges of mortgage, bulk conversion of paper Certificates of Title to electronic Certificates of Title, introducing priority notices
  • Section 60 applications – critical deficiencies
  • New practice for Not in Common Ownership (NICO) plans
  • Transfer by direction
  • Changes to recording restrictive covenants on folios
  • Compliance examinations of subscribers to an ELN
  • Answering requisitions, stopped case notices and other correspondence

Customer Information Bulletin 158 (DOCX, 85.4 KB)

  • Registrar's requirements for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Forms approval
  • Introduction of a Crown folio for Crown land records
  • New practice for Not in Common Ownership plans (NICO)
  • Co-operatives National Law (Victoria)
  • Victorian Water Register – Signing a transfer of water share and other documents under the Water Act 1989

Customer Information Bulletin 157 (DOCX, 88.4 KB)

  • Lodging fees from 1 July 2016
  • Guides and fees calculators
  • Survey documents required when lodging a plan of subdivision or consolidation
  • New PEXA tool aids lodging caveats online

Customer Information Bulletin 156 (DOCX, 90.0 KB)

  • Revised guides on VOI
  • Over-the-counter printing of Certificates of Title to cease
  • Changes to lodging mortgages and discharges of mortgage
  • Executions by foreign corporations in conveyancing transactions
  • Execution by markspersons

Customer Information Bulletin 155 (DOCX, 91.3 KB)

  • Changes to lodging mortgages and discharges of mortgage
  • New verification of identity services for people overseas
  • Model Participation Rules (MPR) guidance notes
  • Historical aerial photographs
  • Lodging dealings by mail

2015

Customer Information Bulletin 154 (DOCX, 88.8 KB)

  • Certificate of Title nomination process – further changes

Customer Information Bulletin 153 (DOCX, 90.4 KB)

  • Verification of identity for paper conveyancing transactions
  • Invitation to comment on RIS closes mid-November
  • Lodgement of dealings by mail – reminder
  • Land Victoria plan lodgements
  • Execution by foreign corporations

Customer Information Bulletin 152 (DOC, 102.5 KB)

  • Participation Rules and Operating Requirements for electronic conveyancing transactions and Registrar's Requirements for paper conveyancing transactions

Customer Information Bulletin 151 (DOC, 99.0 KB)

  • Proposed Land Victoria fee regulations

Customer Information Bulletin 150 (DOC, 107.5 KB)

  • Registrar's Requirements for paper instruments - an update
  • New Forms guides and fees web page
  • Powers of Attorney Act 2014 - new requirements
  • Lodgement of dealings by correspondence
  • Image watermarks and page numbers
  • Electronic conveyancing – signing electronic instruments

Customer Information Bulletin 149 (DOC, 184.5 KB)

  • Registrar's Requirements for paper instruments – an update
  • New lodging fees from 1 July 2015
  • Certificate of Title nomination process
  • Certificates of Title and Administrative Notices
  • Waterway notation on plans

Customer Information Bulletin 148 (DOC, 186.0 KB)

  • Land Victoria moves to new department
  • Transfer functionality now in PEXA
  • New adverse possession forms and guides
  • Paper settlement with an electronic Certificate of Title
  • Certificate of Title nomination process
  • Revised guides
  • Joint proprietors, all deceased
  • Service of court documents on the Registrar of Titles
  • Victorian Water Register

Customer Information Bulletin 147 (DOC, 170.5 KB)

  • New caveat and withdrawal of caveat interactive forms and guides

2014

Customer Information Bulletin 146/2014 (PDF, 65.2 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 146/2014 (DOC, 64.0 KB)

  • Paper settlement with an electronic Certificate of Title
  • Notices to caveators
  • Disclaimer of onerous freehold property
  • Recovery of possession by lessors – section 70 Transfer of Land Act
  • Conditions in Crown grants
  • Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution (GAIC)

Customer Information Bulletin 145/2014 (PDF, 66.7 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 145/2014 (DOC, 55.0 KB)

  • Legislative changes to Transfer of Land Act 1958 effective 24 September 2014

Customer Information Bulletin 144/2014 (PDF, 435.7 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 144/2014 (DOC, 56.0 KB)

  • Lodgement checklist requirements for adverse possession and amendment of title boundary applications
  • Aligning paper and electronic conveyancing – verification of identity
  • Attending a paper settlement when the Certificate of Title is electronic
  • Standardised caveat grounds of claim

Customer Information Bulletin 143/2014 (PDF, 105.6 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 143/2014 (DOC, 54.5 KB)

  • New lodging fees from 1 July 2014
  • PEXA takes over from Electronic Conveyancing Victoria (ECV)
  • Caveat types
  • New interactive caveat forms
  • Caveat endorsement on folio search
  • Lodging subdivision applications online
  • Applications for discharges of mortgages on proof of payment – Registrar's requirements
  • Contact us – new page online

2013

Customer Information Bulletin 142/2013 (PDF, 272.9 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 142/2013 (DOC, 126.0 KB)

  • Aligning paper and electronic conveyancing
  • Lodging requirements for applications to bring General law land under the Transfer of Land Act 1958
  • Nomination of Certificates of Title
  • Customer management of caveats – understanding when to consent and when not to consent to a dealing
  • Change of family name on forms
  • Opening Land Victoria forms
  • Transfer of Water Share by Mortgagee – changed procedures

Customer Information Bulletin 141/2013 (PDF, 228.3 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 141/2013 (accessible version) (DOC, 81.0 KB)

  • National electronic conveyancing begins
  • Name used by registered proprietor
  • New fees
  • New forms
  • Delivery of Certificates of Title
  • Incorporated associations
  • Victorian Water Register

Customer Information Bulletin 140/2013 (PDF, 341.6 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 140/2013 (DOC, 57.5 KB)

  • Electronic Conveyancing (Adoption of National Law) Act 2013
  • Changes to credit /debit card payment process
  • Certificate of title nomination process
  • Notice of Acquisition  (NOA)
  • Use of approved forms
  • Tips for using new forms on DEPI website

2012

Customer Information Bulletin 139/2012 (PDF, 347.3 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 139/2012 (accessible version) (DOC, 1.0 MB)

  • Changes to 'Made Available' process
  • Dealings by insolvent companies
  • Enhanced search services
  • Building subdivision boundaries

Customer Information Bulletin 138/2012 (PDF, 577.5 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 138/2012 (accessible version) (DOC, 786.0 KB)

  • New Land Victoria forms – Discharge of Mortgage, Transfer of Land and Mortgage.

Customer Information Bulletin 137/2012 (PDF, 446.6 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 137/2012 (accessible version) (DOC, 41.5 KB)

  • Provisional Folio project for General law land – conversion of marketable parcels
  • Land Victoria can only deal with the lodging party
  • Folio versus Certificate of Title
  • Commencement of fee for pre-population of folio information

Customer Information Bulletin 136/2012 (PDF, 455.8 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 136/2012 (accessible version) (DOC, 46.5 KB)

  • Changes to Land Victoria fees from 1 July 2012
  • Notice of Acquisition (NOA)
  • Section 89A of the Transfer of Land Act 1958, reminder
  • Adverse possession by joint beneficiaries
  • Accepting Section 45 transfers at Plan Acceptance
  • Other subdivision information

Customer Information Bulletin 135/2012 (PDF, 250.6 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 135/2012 (accessible version) (DOC, 1.3 MB)

  • Land Victoria fee changes for Subdivision Act related lodgements
  • New forms for lodgement at Land Victoria
  • New caveat types introduced to EC

2011

Customer Information Bulletin 134/2011 (PDF, 207.2 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 134/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 75.0 KB)

  • Notice of Acquisition
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Caveat by registered proprietor
  • Restricted and accessory lots
  • Evidence in bankruptcy transmission applications
  • Contra proferentem rule
  • Land Victoria stock mortgage memorial register and register of crops and wool liens
  • Victorian Water Register

Customer Information Bulletin 133/2011 (PDF, 108.3 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 133/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 46.5 KB)

  • Subdivision (Registrar's Requirements) Regulations 2011
  • Subdivision (Procedures) Regulations 2011

Customer Information Bulletin 132/2011 (PDF, 200.5 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 132/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 75.0 KB)

  • Guidelines for preparing OCR-friendly bulk lodgement bundles
  • Name used by registered Proprietor
  • Company searches
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Caveats and removal of caveats
  • Court proceedings where the Registrar is joined for procedural reasons
  • Building Scheme covenants

Customer Information Bulletin 131/2011 (PDF, 97.8 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 131/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 39.0 KB)

  • Making payments to the Water Registrar

Customer Information Bulletin 130/2011 (PDF, 208.5 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 130/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 57.0 KB)

  • Customer Information Bulletin 130 explains the Climate Change Act 2010, and how forest rights operate

Customer Information Bulletin 129/2011 (PDF, 145.9 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 129/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 44.0 KB)

  • Making payments to the Water Registrar – important new requirements regarding cheques
  • Showing trusts on Water Shares

Customer Information Bulletin 128/2011 (PDF, 139.9 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 128/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 46.5 KB)

  • Removal of 'purchaser' caveats
  • Caveats and a transfer by mortgage (correction of error in CIB No. 125/2010)
  • Land Victoria Stock Mortgage Memorial Register

Customer Information Bulletin 127/2011 (PDF, 189.1 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 127/2011 (accessible version) (DOC, 66.0 KB)

  • Top tips for completing Land Victoria forms
  • CIBs no longer printed – available online only from May 2011

2010

Customer Information Bulletin 126/2010 (PDF, 400.1 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 126/2010 (accessible version) (DOC, 167.0 KB)

  • Section 35 plans
  • Land Victoria payment methods
  • Single signing in Electronic Conveyancing

Customer Information Bulletin 125/2010 (PDF, 104.5 KB)
Customer Information Bulletin 125/2010 (accessible version) (DOC, 113.5 KB)

  • Elimination of cheques as a payment method
  • Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution
  • Business practice clarifications
  • Electronic Conveyancing
  • Caveats and transfer by mortgagee
  • Drafting leases

Customer Information Bulletin 124/2010 (PDF, 86.0 KB)

  • Changes to search fees and user charges from 1 July 2010

Customer Information Bulletin 123/2010 (PDF, 171.3 KB)

  • Land Victoria lodgement fees from 1 July 2010

Customer Information Bulletin 122/2010 (PDF, 107.9 KB)

  • Legislative changes to Transfer of Land Act 1958 and Subdivision Act 1988 effective 1 May 2010.

2009

Customer Information Bulletin 121/2009 (PDF, 66.7 KB)

  • Lodging online using EC
  • Reminder of changes to payment methods for lodgement fees

Customer Information Bulletin 120/2009 (PDF, 68.9 KB)

Land Registration Services

  • Limit to over-the-counter lodgements
  • Changes to payment methods for Land Victoria lodgement fees
  • Electronic caveats online
  • Alerts on unregistered plans
  • Catchment and Land Protection (CaLP) Section 90 certificates

Victorian Water Register

  • Unconfirmed ownership of water shares in the Southern Declared Water Systems
  • End of 'no recording fee' on Discharge of Mortgage on a water share

Customer Information Bulletin 119/2009 (PDF, 59.9 KB)

  • New Land Victoria search fees and user charges from 1 July 2009

Customer Information Bulletin 118/2009 (PDF, 91.8 KB)

  • New Land Victoria fees - changes to lodgement fees from 1 July 2009

Customer Information Bulletin 117/2009 (PDF, 214.4 KB)

Land Registration Services

  • Caveats online
  • Interactive forms
  • Plan lodgement checklists
  • Land Victoria plan requirements reminder
  • Checking for street addresses

Victorian Water Register

  • Changing your name in the Water Register
  • Unconfirmed ownership of water shares in southern and northern declared water systems
  • Lodging documents for recording in the Water Register

Customer Information Bulletin 116/2009 (PDF, 116.6 KB)

  • Plan requirements reminder
  • Plan lodgement checklists
  • General reminders when preparing caveats
  • Changes to Search Register Statement

2008

Customer Information Bulletin 115/2008 (PDF, 61.7 KB)

  • Changes to lodgement requirements for plans of subdivision and consolidation
  • Changes to 'made available' process
  • Return of old style paper or parchment certificates of title
  • Document signing
  • Adelaide Bank merger
  • T2 Transfer of Land form

Customer Information Bulletin 114/2008 (PDF, 65.0 KB)

  • Planning Certificate fee increase

Customer Information Bulletin 113/2008 (PDF, 128.3 KB)

Victorian Water Register

  • Further extension of waiver for recording fee on a discharge of mortgage of water share
  • Unconfirmed ownership of water shares in Northern Victorian declared water systems
  • Lodging documents for recording in the Water Register

Land Registration Services

  • Dealings on folios affected by various notices
  • Refused dealings
  • New LANDATA product – Verify Title Search
  • LANDATA Planning Certificate delivers on authority, price and service

Customer Information Bulletin 112/2008 (PDF, 60.1 KB)

  • Land Victoria fees – Search fees and user charges from 1 July 2008
  • Landata service charges from 1 July 2008
  • Electronic Conveyancing fees and user charges from 1 October 2008

Customer Information Bulletin 111/2008 (PDF, 92.5 KB)

  • Land Victoria fees – Changes to lodgement fees from 1 July 2008

Customer Information Bulletin 110/2008 (PDF, 59.5 KB)

  • Unbundling of water entitlements in southern Victoria

Customer Information Bulletin 109/2008 (PDF, 68.2 KB)

Victorian Water Register

  • Confirmation of ownership of Water Shares, Transfer of Water Shares and Forms

Land Registration Services

  • Name used by registered proprietors
  • Abbreviated names of companies/incorporated associations

2007

Customer Information Bulletin 108/2007 (PDF, 59.0 KB)

  • Electronic Conveyancing Release 2.0 commences

Customer Information Bulletin 107/2007 (PDF, 1.3 MB)

  • Owners Corporation Act 2006

Customer Information Bulletin 106/2007 (PDF, 63.6 KB)

  • Revised Transfer of Land Act Lodgement Fees from 5 November 2007
  • electronic/paper transactions

Customer Information Bulletin 105/2007 (PDF, 60.1 KB)

  • Register Search Statement improvements
  • Enhancements to Crown Land Status Report

Customer Information Bulletin 104/2007 (PDF, 62.2 KB)

  • Land Victoria Water Share Transaction Fees

Customer Information Bulletin 103/2007 (PDF, 45.9 KB)

  • Victorian Water Register

Customer Information Bulletin 102/2007 (PDF, 61.8 KB)

  • Land Victoria Fees
  • Changes to Search Fees from July 2007

Customer Information Bulletin 101/2007 (PDF, 60.2 KB)

  • Land Victoria fees
  • Changes to Lodgement Fees from 1 July 2007

Customer Information Bulletin 100/2007 (PDF, 43.7 KB)

  • New fees as at 1 July 2007

Customer Information Bulletin 99/2007 (PDF, 48.1 KB)

  • Property Transaction Alert Service
  • Section 173 Planning and Environment Act Agreements

Customer Information Bulletin 98/2007 (PDF, 241.4 KB)

  • Generic Mortgage forms
  • Considerations in transfers and duty assessed
  • Evidence requirements in Section 22(1B) applications

Customer Information Bulletin 97/2007 (PDF, 120.1 KB)

  • SPEAR Project

2006

Customer Information Bulletin 96/2006 (PDF, 36.4 KB)

  • Lodging Book

Customer Information Bulletin 95/2006 (PDF, 57.2 KB)

  • Body Corporate Information

Customer Information Bulletin 94/2006 (PDF, 236.0 KB)

  • Victorian electronic conveyancing commences

Customer Information Bulletin 93/2006 (PDF, 55.3 KB)

  • New search and lodgement fees as at 1 July 2006
  • Folios affected by a body corporate

Customer Information Bulletin 92/2006 (PDF, 31.9 KB)

  • T2 transfers affecting a covenant or easement

2005

Customer Information Bulletin 91/2005 (PDF, 41.6 KB)

  • Certification of Company Searches - an update
  • Notices to Caveators
  • Statutory Declarations and statements of Witness Qualification
  • Confirmations
  • Dealings by Insolvent Companies
  • Legal Profession Act 2004
  • Annexure Pages in dealings lodged
  • Tenancy in common in unequal shares
  • Considerations in Transfers
  • Registration Notification Report

Customer Information Bulletin 90/2005 (PDF, 41.9 KB)

  • Caveats affecting multiple dwelling folios
  • Certification of company searches
  • New lodgement fees from 1 July 2005
  • Guidelines for the preparation of agreements under Section 173 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987
  • Section 173 Agreements
  • GST and consideration in a transfer
  • Change to VOTS search output

2004

Customer Information Bulletin 89/2004 (PDF, 3.7 MB)

  • Planning Certificates
  • Crown Land Status Reports Online
  • Government Gazettes Online
  • Bank Integration Act 1992
  • Notices of Acquisition
  • State Revenue Office – opening hours

Customer Information Bulletin 88/2004 (PDF, 115.7 KB)

  • SPEAR Streamlined Planning through Electronic Applications and Referrals
  • Changes to registration processes in Land Registry

Customer Information Bulletin 87/2004 (PDF, 164.2 KB)

  • New search and lodgement fees 2004
  • The Land Registry Lodging Book

Customer Information Bulletin 86/2004 (PDF, 72.4 KB)

  • Change in practice where a company is a mortgagor
  • Dating of All Mortgages
  • No duplicate or triplicate instruments to be lodged
  • Transfer of Land (General) Regulations 2004 – Superfluous markings on documents
  • Important Notice To Users Of The Combined Form [T1 Transfer and Notice Of Acquisition]
  • Adverse possession applications
  • Section 60 of the Transfer of Land Act 1958 (TLA)
  • Important change to Land Registry practice – New approved forms

Customer Information Bulletin 85/2004 (PDF, 30.2 KB)

  • Review of fees regulations

2003

Customer Information Bulletin 84/2003 (PDF, 33.4 KB)

  • Practice relating to powers of attorney
  • Plans and diagrams in dealings
  • Signing of Land Registry documents by current practitioners
  • Lodgement of duplicate mortgages with discharges

Customer Information Bulletin 83/2003 (PDF, 191.4 KB)

  • Notices of acquisition
  • Amendment of dealings by agents
  • Patent errors
  • Caveats claiming an interest under a deceased estate
  • Things to consider when drafting leases and restrictive covenants
  • New location for Planning Certificates
  • Consents by mortgagees to leases, easements or restrictive covenants
  • "Withdrawal" of unrecorded caveats

Customer Information Bulletin 82/2003 (PDF, 48.2 KB)

  • Title Plans
  • Y Dealing Numbers
  • Use of Post Office as Address for Body Corporate
  • Stratum Title Service Company Shares
  • Change of Customer Names in VOTS
  • Government Gazettes
  • Land Registry Customer Service Committees
  • Certification of a Probate or Letters of Administration

2002

Customer Information Bulletin 81/2002 (PDF, 471.2 KB)

  • Changes to return of duplicate titles process
  • Transmission applications – new endorsement practice
  • Preparation of caveats
  • Titles made available
  • failure to endorse orders to register
  • VOTS folio search – new land description
  • Subdivision Act plan lodgement checklist
  • Improvement to the issuing of document process
  • Your guide to lost / New Title Applications
  • Archiving Of Title Records

2001

Customer Information Bulletin 80/2001 (PDF, 52.9 KB)

  • Caveators Consent
  • VOTS Folio Search
  • New Land Descriptions
  • Regulation 57 Of The Subdvision (Procedures) 2000

Customer Information Bulletin 79/2001 (PDF, 61.2 KB)

  • Folio Search
  • New Features
  • General Law Conversion Subsidy Finishing
  • Change of Lodgement Practice
  • Approved Forms and the Illegal use of Photocopies
  • Identity of Private Caveators
  • Subdivision (Body Corporate) Regulations 2001
  • Combined Transfer (TI) and Notice of Acquisition Form
  • Self Service Search

Customer Information Bulletin 78/2001 (PDF, 45.3 KB)

  • Consideration for 'Off the Plan' Purchases
  • Combination of (T1) Transfer and Notice of Acquisition Forms
  • Lost Titles
  • New Practice for Section 31

2000

Customer Information Bulletin 77/2000 (PDF, 39.3 KB)

  • Conversion Plans Pursuant to Section 98CA(1) Transfer of Land Act 1958 (TLA)
  • Lease Pursuant to Section 66 TLA
  • Application by Legal Personal Representative Section 49 TLA
  • Recording the Transferee as a Legal Personal Representative of a Deceased Person
  • Caveat Notices
  • The Subdivision (Body Corporate) (Interim) Regulations 2000
  • Return of Paper (Parchment) Duplicate Titles- Subdivision (Procedures) Regulations 2000

Customer Information Bulletin 75/2000 (PDF, 48.5 KB)

  • Change in Office Practice – Caveat Notices
  • Landata Brokers – Expression of Interest

1999

Customer Information Bulletin 74/1999 (PDF, 36.3 KB)

  • Execution Of Dealings By A Municipality
  • General Law Land Conversion
  • Landata
  • Appointment Of Data Resellers
  • Imaged Plan And Instrument Viewing

Customer Information Bulletin 73/1999 (PDF, 33.8 KB)

  • General Law Land Conversion
  • Projects And Changes
  • Search Subsidy And General Law Search Library
  • Title Plans

1998

Customer Information Bulletin 72/1998 (PDF, 612.1 KB)

  • Practice Note – execution by corporations
  • Expiry date of covenants

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