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Land Victoria’s Customer Information Bulletin (CIB) advises new procedures and addresses current issues that are relevant to its customers – title searchers, solicitors, conveyancers, financial institutions, surveyors and other lodging parties.
If you are a regular Land Victoria customer and you would like to subscribe to the CIB, send an email with your name and email address to lv.cib@dse.vic.gov.au with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line
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2013
Customer Information Bulletin 140/2013
[PDF File - 341.6 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 140/2013 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 347.3 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 139/2012 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 1.0 MB]
- Changes to 'Made Available' process
- Dealings by insolvent companies
- Enhanced search services
- Building subdivision boundaries
Customer Information Bulletin 138/2012
[PDF File - 577.5 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 138/2012 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 786.0 KB]
- New Land Victoria forms - Discharge of Mortgage, Transfer of Land and Mortgage.
Customer Information Bulletin 137/2012
[PDF File - 446.6 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 137/2012 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 455.8 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 136/2012 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 250.6 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 135/2012 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 207.2 KB]Customer Information Bulletin 134/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 108.3 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 133/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 46.5 KB]
- Subdivision (Registrar's Requirements) Regulations 2011
- Subdivision (Procedures) Regulations 2011
Customer Information Bulletin 132/2011
[PDF File - 200.5 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 132/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 97.8 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 131/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 39.0 KB]
- Making payments to the Water Registrar
Customer Information Bulletin 130/2011
[PDF File - 208.5 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 130/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 57.0 KB]
- Customer Information Bulletin 130 explains the Climate Change Act 2010, and how forest rights operate
Customer Information Bulletin 129/2011
[PDF File - 145.9 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 129/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 139.9 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 128/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 189.1 KB]
Customer Information Bulletin 127/2011 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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 File - 400.1 KB]Customer Information Bulletin 126/2010 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 167.0 KB]
- Section 35 plans
- Land Victoria payment methods
- Single signing in Electronic Conveyancing
[PDF File - 104.5 KB]Customer Information Bulletin 125/2010 (accessible version)
[MS Word Document - 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
[PDF File - 86.0 KB]
- Changes to search fees and user charges from 1 July 2010
[PDF File - 171.3 KB]
- Land Victoria lodgement fees from 1 July 2010
[PDF File - 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 File - 66.7 KB]
- Lodging online using EC
- Reminder of changes to payment methods for lodgement fees
Customer Information Bulletin 120/2009
[PDF File - 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
- Unconfirmed ownership of water shares in the Southern Declared Water Systems
- End of 'no recording fee' on Discharge of Mortgage on a water share
[PDF File - 59.9 KB]
- New Land Victoria search fees and user charges from 1 July 2009
[PDF File - 91.8 KB]
- New Land Victoria fees - changes to lodgement fees from 1 July 2009
Customer Information Bulletin 117/2009
[PDF File - 214.4 KB]
Land Registration Services
- Caveats online
- Interactive forms
- Plan lodgement checklists
- Land Victoria plan requirements reminder
- Checking for street addresses
- 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
[PDF File - 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 File - 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
[PDF File - 65.0 KB]
- Planning Certificate fee increase
[PDF File - 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
- Dealings on folios affected by various notices
- Refused dealings
- New LANDATA product - Verify Title Search
- LANDATA Planning Certificate delivers on authority, price and service
[PDF File - 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
[PDF File - 92.5 KB]
- Land Victoria fees - Changes to lodgement fees from 1 July 2008
[PDF File - 59.5 KB]
- Unbundling of water entitlements in southern Victoria
[PDF File - 68.2 KB]Victorian Water Register
- Confirmation of ownership of Water Shares, Transfer of Water Shares and Forms
- Name used by registered proprietors
- Abbreviated names of companies/incorporated associations
2007
Customer Information Bulletin 108/2007
[PDF File - 59.0 KB]
- Electronic Conveyancing Release 2.0 commences
[PDF File - 1.3 MB]
- Owners Corporation Act 2006
[PDF File - 63.6 KB]
- Revised Transfer of Land Act Lodgement Fees from 5 November 2007
- electronic/paper transactions
[PDF File - 60.1 KB]
- Register Search Statement improvements
- Enhancements to Crown Land Status Report
[PDF File - 62.2 KB]
- Land Victoria Water Share Transaction Fees
[PDF File - 45.9 KB]
- Victorian Water Register
[PDF File - 61.8 KB]
- Land Victoria Fees
- Changes to Search Fees from July 2007
[PDF File - 60.2 KB]
- Land Victoria fees
- Changes to Lodgement Fees from 1 July 2007
[PDF File - 43.7 KB]
- New fees as at 1 July 2007
[PDF File - 48.1 KB]
- Property Transaction Alert Service
- Section 173 Planning and Environment Act Agreements
[PDF File - 241.4 KB]
- Generic Mortgage forms
- Considerations in transfers and duty assessed
- Evidence requirements in Section 22(1B) applications
[PDF File - 120.1 KB]
- SPEAR Project
2006
Customer Information Bulletin 96/2006
[PDF File - 36.4 KB]
- Lodging Book
[PDF File - 57.2 KB]
- Body Corporate Information
[PDF File - 236.0 KB]
- Victorian electronic conveyancing commences
[PDF File - 55.3 KB]
- New search and lodgement fees as at 1 July 2006
- Folios affected by a body corporate
[PDF File - 31.9 KB]
- T2 transfers affecting a covenant or easement
2005
Customer Information Bulletin 91/2005
[PDF File - 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
[PDF File - 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 File - 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
[PDF File - 115.7 KB]
- SPEAR Streamlined Planning through Electronic Applications and Referrals
- Changes to registration processes in Land Registry
[PDF File - 164.2 KB]
- New search and lodgement fees 2004
- The Land Registry Lodging Book
[PDF File - 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
[PDF File - 30.2 KB]
- Review of fees regulations
2003
Customer Information Bulletin 84/2003
[PDF File - 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
[PDF File - 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
[PDF File - 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 File - 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 File - 52.9 KB]
- Caveators Consent
- VOTS Folio Search
- New Land Descriptions
- Regulation 57 Of The Subdvision (Procedures) 2000
[PDF File - 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
[PDF File - 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 File - 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
[PDF File - 48.5 KB]
- Change in Office Practice – Caveat Notices
- Landata Brokers – Expression of Interest
1999
Customer Information Bulletin 74/1999
[PDF File - 36.3 KB]
- Execution Of Dealings By A Municipality
- General Law Land Conversion
- Landata
- Appointment Of Data Resellers
- Imaged Plan And Instrument Viewing
[PDF File - 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 File - 612.1 KB]
- Practice Note - execution by corporations
- Expiry date of covenants
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