Field note
Lodging without the correction notice
Registrars send back drafts for reasons that are almost always on the form: a missing declaration, a plan that does not speak, a standing that does not match the extract.
Correction notices are not mysterious. They are a registrar pointing at a blank the applicant treated as optional.
The statutory declaration that still names a former spouse as an owner. The plan attached to a dealing that is a photocopy of a photocopy, with a dimension the surveyor no longer stands behind. The company applicant whose extract shows a former name, while the form uses the new name and nobody has lodged the change. The fee paid on last year’s scale.
We keep a short list on the lodging desk, and it has not changed much in five years:
- Standing on the form must match standing on the extract, word for word where the office is strict.
- Exhibits must be the current issue of the plan or certificate, not the copy in the conveyancing precedent folder.
- If a gazette notice started a clock, the lodging letter should name the notice and the date. Hoping the clerk will find it is not a method.
- A covering letter is not an exhibit. If the rule requires a declaration, write a declaration.
An Application File Review is slower than hitting send on a portal, and faster than the six weeks a bounced lodging can add to a settlement. If your draft is already in a portal queue, say so when you write to us; some offices will still allow a withdrawal and a clean lodging, and some will not.