The Land Titles Office Victoria is transitioning to the digital age. As of August 2024, the LTO will not issue any further paper duplicate titles.
Homage to the Past
It’s a small reminder of how the Colony of Victoria by the legislative Real Property Act of 1862 transitioned to the Torrens system of title by registration declaring: “WHEREAS the inhabitants of this colony are subjected to losses heavy costs and much perplexity by reason that the laws relating to the transfer and encumbrance of freehold and other interests in land are complex cumbrous and unsuited to the requirements of the said inhabitants and it is expedient to amend the said laws” Extract from the preamble of the Real Property Act 1862
The creation of the Register Book:
PART III.—REGISTER BOOK—MODE OF REGISTERING AND EFFECT OF REGISTRATION.
XXX. The Registrar-General shall keep a book to be called the ” Register Book ” and shall bind up therein the duplicates of all grants and of all certificates of title and each grant and certificate of title shall constitute a separate folium of such book and the Registrar-General shall record thereon the particulars of all instruments dealings and other matters by this Act required to be registered or entered on the register book affecting the land included under each such grant or certificate of title distinct and apart.
Thus an age has passed
