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Bulletin information:

Issue Date: October 25, 1974
Legislation: Regulation 780 under the Registry Act

Bulletin content:

Section 5 (1)(g) of Regulation 780 under the Registry Act provides, in part, that a description of land in an instrument tendered for registration shall include:

  1. the name of the municipality and of the county, district or regional municipality in which the land was included at the time of execution of the instrument; and
  2. where the land was described in the last previously registered deed or conveyance as being included in a municipality other than the municipality referred to in subclause ii, the name of the other municipality.

Please note that where a municipal name has changed and an instrument referring to the previous as well as the present name has been registered, no reference to the previous name is required in subssequent instruments affecting the same land. Where an instrument tendered for registration does not refer to the previous as well as the present name, it may be assumed that an instrument complying with this requirement has already been registered.

Original signed by:

R. Blomsa
Senior Legal Officer