THE ADVOCATE 289
VOL. 80 PART 2 MARCH 2022
GRUMBLE
By R.C. Tino Bella*
Dear Editor,
Re: Land Title and Survey Authority’s
Timestamps
With the Land Title and Survey
Authority’s (“LTSA”) change to web
filing forms in December 2020
came the introduction of timestamps
to land title forms. The
timestamps do not record anything
about the transaction, parties or
property; they simply record when
the form was first opened in the
LTSA’s portal. The LTSA places
utmost import on this new addition
and will defect and decline registration
if the execution copy has a
different time stamp. This is all
done in the name of the integrity of
the land title system. Consider that
the marginal effect of this timestamp
policy is solely limited to
defecting applications where all
details (except the timestamp) are
identical to an execution copy
properly signed. I fail to see how
defects in that context help the
integrity of the system. What a
bothersome, obstructionist and
waste of a policy.
Tyler Holte
Fort St. John
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