Appendix 3: Surveyor General’s Circular Letters

The Surveyor General issues, from time to time, Circular Letters to formally provide information and clarification on Surveyor General Services policy and procedures and announce major business change requirements.

The complete text of active and inactive Circular Letters dating back to July 12, 1953 and a table summarizing changes are available at ltsa.ca. The following active Circular Letters released on and after February 15, 2012 are particularly relevant to current land title practice and are reproduced in this chapter.

Note that references to Acts and regulations in the Surveyor General’s Circular Letters are current as of the issuing date of the Circular Letter. Readers are advised to confirm the titles of enactments, the references to section numbers, and the current status of the legislative material cited in the Circular Letters. In addition, readers are advised that, in some cases, some portions of a Circular Letter may be dated as a result of court decisions or legislative amendments made after the issuing date.