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  • 176 (1) The registrar must, on the written application of the registered owner in fee simple of land that is not subject to a registered mortgage or agreement for sale, issue a certificate to be known as a duplicate indefeasible title.
  • (2) A duplicate indefeasible title must contain all information contained in the register respecting the indefeasible title to the land in question together with all conditions, exceptions and reservations, charges, liens or interests to which the title of the applicant is subject.
  • (3) A duplicate indefeasible title must be in the form approved by the director and must be certified by the registrar as an accurate statement of the information referred to in subsection (2) as it is stored in the register.
  • (4) The registrar must endorse a note in the register that the duplicate indefeasible title has been issued, and the registrar must not issue a second duplicate indefeasible title until the first one has been cancelled or deemed to be cancelled.
  • (5) The registrar may deliver a duplicate indefeasible title
  • (a) by mailing it to the person who made the application or the person named in the application for that purpose at the person’s address set out in the application, or
  • (b) by personal delivery to that person, in which case the person to whom it is personally delivered must sign a receipt for it.
  • (6) Unless the registrar otherwise directs, a duplicate indefeasible title that is returned to a land title office is cancelled, whether or not a note of the cancellation is made on it.

1979-219-173; 1982-60-42, proclaimed effective August 1, 1983; 2004-66-96, effective January 20, 2005 (B.C. Reg. 16/2005).

REGULATIONS AND FORMS

The director has approved the use of Form 22, Application for Duplicate Indefeasible Title. The use of Form 22 is compulsory.

Submissions

On the Form 17 Charge, Notation or Filing, select Nature of Interest, Application for Duplicate Indefeasible Title, and attach an image of the original Form 22.

Form of Duplicate Indefeasible Title

The director has approved the use of Form 21, Certificate of Indefeasible Title, and Form 21(a), Duplicate Indefeasible Title. The use of these forms is compulsory.

PRACTICE

Issuance of Duplicate Indefeasible Title

On receipt of an application in Form 22 from the fee simple owner, the registrar must issue a duplicate indefeasible title and certify that the duplicate is an accurate statement of the information stored in the register on the date of issue.

Delivery of Duplicate Indefeasible Title

In accordance with s. 176(5)(a), the registrar may deliver a duplicate indefeasible title by mailing it to the person who made the application, or by mailing it to “the person named in the application for that purpose at the person’s address set out in the application”. In accordance with s. 176(5)(b), the registrar may instead deliver the duplicate indefeasible title by personal delivery to the applicant or the other person named. In the case of personal delivery, the applicant or other person named must sign a receipt for it. As a matter of convenience, receipt may be acknowledged on the Form 22 application.

Consequences of Outstanding Duplicate Indefeasible Title

Once a duplicate indefeasible title is issued, the registrar rejects any subsequent applications that require the duplicate indefeasible title be on file (see, for example, s. 195 of the Act). A second duplicate indefeasible title cannot be issued until the first one has been cancelled or deemed to be cancelled (s. 176(4)).

CROSS REFERENCES AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Dealings with Duplicate Indefeasible Title on Transfer

See s. 189 of the Act, which requires the holder of a duplicate indefeasible title to land for which the holder has given a transfer to deliver up the holder’s duplicate indefeasible title to the registrar for cancellation.

Destruction of Duplicate Indefeasible Title by Registrar

See s. 190 of the Act, which enables the registrar to destroy a duplicate indefeasible title at any time after the expiration of three months after the date of its cancellation.

Replacement of Duplicate Indefeasible Title

See s. 193 regarding the replacement of a lost or destroyed duplicate indefeasible title with a provisional indefeasible title.

Secondary Sources

See Di Castri, Registration of Title to Land, vol. 1, paras. 54, 55, and 300, and M.A. Waldron, “Unregistered Equitable Mortgages in British Columbia: Lenders Beware” (1987) 45 Advocate 533.