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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).