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  • 168 (1) The registrar may cause an application and an instrument or other document presented with it
  • (a) to undergo a preliminary inspection, or
  • (b) to be received without preliminary inspection.
  • (2) An application may be summarily rejected if, in a preliminary inspection under this section,
  • (a) the instrument or other document
    • (i) does not qualify in substance and in form for registration, filing or deposit,
    • (ii) is not on sufficiently durable paper,
    • (iii) is illegible in any respect, including the signature of a witness or an official authorized to take an affidavit,
    • (iv) is in whole or in part a carbon copy of a typewritten document, or
    • (v) is not capable of being satisfactorily microfilmed or photocopied or of being scanned and stored electronically using equipment in the land title office,
  • (b) the supporting application or other document is incomplete or not in proper form, or
  • (c) obvious defects in title are discovered.
  • (3) Whether or not there has been a preliminary inspection, the application is received when the registrar has complied with section 153.
  • (4) Every application received must be examined without delay and, except for an application to register a certificate of pending litigation or to lodge a caveat, must be given consideration in order of its receipt.

1979-219-165; 1980-50-49, effective May 17, 1980; 1989-69-16,17, effective April 1, 1990 (B.C. Reg. 53/90); 1992-55-1, effective October 1, 1994 (B.C. Reg. 300/94).