DATE: 24 FEBRUARY 2025
DISTRIBUTION: GENERAL
SUBJECT: CONVEYANCING REFORM IN TASMANIA: CERTIFICATES OF TITLE
Status of Certificates of Title
Certificates of title remain part of the conveyancing process in Tasmania.
Electronic conveyancing is available in Tasmania and can be used by producing a certificate of title utilising the appropriate production procedure available through the Tasmania Online Land Dealings (TOLD) system.
It is intended nevertheless for certificates of title to be removed at some time in the future.
Work is continuing regarding the dependencies (listed below) for the removal of certificates of title, and it will be some time yet before certificates of title will be removed.
Whilst it is not yet possible to provide a definitive time frame for the removal of certificates of title, it is already clear that certificates of title will not be removed prior to 31 December 2025 (and this is not to say that certificates of title will be necessarily removed immediately after this date).
A decision to remove certificates of title will only take place when:
(a) All of the implications of such removal have been evaluated and addressed;
(b) The Registry Instruments and other Documents have been amended and subsequently been in use for a sufficient period of time (after allowing for transition arrangements); and
(c) There is sufficient evidence from Compliance Examinations undertaken, demonstrating the requisite standard of compliance with the Recorder’s Directions.
Regardless of the ultimately determined date, there will be not less than 3 months’ notice provided that certificate of titles will be removed.
The removal will be for all certificate of titles (excluding general law titles) on one nominated date.
ROBERT MANNING
Recorder of Titles
Contact
Land Titles Office
Level 1, 134 Macquarie Street
Hobart TAS 7000
Email: ltoreform@nre.tas.gov.au