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A practice for registry access and the applications that sit on those books

Assessment

Application File Review

Hands reviewing a stack of signed paper documents on a desk

A line-by-line reading of a draft application before it is lodged, so the registrar’s correction notice is not the first person to find the missing declaration.

Form
Papers review with marked-up draft
Fee basis
From $920 + GST
Time
Five to eight working days
Where
Papers only, conference if the draft is contested

An Application File Review is for a draft that is almost ready and a client who would rather hear about a missing statutory declaration from us than from a correction notice six weeks after lodging.

We read the form the registrar currently issues, not last year’s photocopy from a colleague’s drawer. We check that the standing claimed in the application matches the standing shown on the extract. We look at the exhibits: survey plans that do not speak to the dealing, board certificates with the wrong year, gazette clippings that start a clock the applicant has not noticed.

The marked-up draft comes back with a short covering note: lodge as recast, lodge with a covering letter we supply, or hold until a supporting volume is produced. We do not lodge unless you ask us to act as the lodging party, and that extra step is quoted once the draft is stable.

Excluded: rewriting an entire conveyancing file, filling blanks you have not answered, and arguing a refused application that has already been determined. Refused files belong with Contested Entry Support.

Fee from $920 plus GST for a single form and its exhibits. Additional instruments in the same lodging are quoted on sight.

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