278 Land Forfeited To Or Vested In Crown

• 278 (1) If land, the title to which has been registered,

• (a) has been forfeited to the government for nonpayment of taxes, or
• (b) becomes vested in the Crown for the use of the Province,

• the Surveyor of Taxes or other proper officer must file with the registrar a certificate of forfeiture or vesting, as the case may be, signed by the Surveyor of Taxes or other proper officer.
• (2) The certificate must set out a description of the land sufficient for the registrar to identify it in the register.
• (3) A certificate of forfeiture or vesting filed under this section is satisfactory evidence to the registrar that the Crown is entitled to a good, safeholding and marketable title in fee simple to the land described in the certificate.
• (4) On filing a certificate of forfeiture or vesting under this section, the registrar must

• (a) cancel every indefeasible title and duplicate indefeasible title relating to the land described in the certificate of forfeiture or vesting, and
• (b) register a new indefeasible title to the land described in the certificate in the name of the Crown.

• (4.1) If the certificate affects an absolute certificate of title, the registrar must make such entry in the records the registrar considers necessary to give notice of the interest of the Crown.
• (5) The title of the Crown, on registration under this section is, subject to section 276, conclusive and is deemed to be the true and correct title from the time of registration, free from encumbrances, and is conclusive evidence that every application, notice, publication, proceeding, consent and act whatever that ought to have been made, given and done before the issue of the certificate by the collector or other proper officer has been made, given and done by the proper authority to the proper persons.

1979-219-257; 1982-60-72, proclaimed effective August 1, 1983; 1987-31-10; 1999-33-22, effective July 29, 1999 (B.C. Reg. 252/99).