Order and pay for instruments

How to buy instruments, such as mortgage or easement documents, in Land Record Search.

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Have your card and email ready

Before you start make sure you have your credit or debit card and an email address ready. We accept Visa, Mastercard and Prezzy cards.

Our fees are changing. For current fees go to:

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1: Review instrument summary. 

Review the instrument summaries to make sure you want to order them.

If you've searched for an address, title or survey reference you'll find instruments under Current Instruments or Historical Instruments.

Click on the arrows next to Current Instruments or Historical Instruments to open the list of instrument summaries.

Current instruments menu.

If you've searched for an instrument number, you'll see the instrument summary under the search field.

Instrument information.

2: Select the instruments you want to order.

If you can see multiple instruments, check the buttons next to the instruments you wish to order. Each instrument costs a fee to order.

As you select instruments a Purchase bar will appear at the bottom of the screen.

The Purchase bar shows you how many instruments you've ordered. The price for the order changes depending on how many instruments you select.

Checkbox for selecting instrument.

If you searched for 1 instrument you don't need to select the instrument to buy it.

3: Select Purchase button.

If you've selected multiple instruments to order the Purchase button will be in the Purchase bar at the bottom of the screen.

Select Purchase.

Select multiple instruments.

If you searched for an instrument number, a Purchase instrument button will be below the instrument summary.

Select Purchase instrument.

Purchase button

A Checkout summary will appear.

Make sure the instrument reference in the Checkout summary is correct.

4: Enter your email address.

Enter the email address you want the title to be sent to.

If you want to you can also change the Subject line for this email.

Email details.

5: Agree to the terms and conditions.

Check you confirm you agree to the terms and conditions of the order.

Terms and conditions checkbox.

6: Select Email button.

Select Email.

Email button.

A payment screen will appear.

7: Enter your credit or debit card details.

Enter your credit or debit card details and press Submit.

Submit button.

Your payment may take a few seconds to come through.

If your payment is successful, you'll get a message to say 'Your purchase is on its way!'

You'll also be given an Order reference number.

Order confirmation.

8: Check your email.

If your payment was successful, check your email for 2 emails:

  • LINZ Order Confirmation
  • LINZ Order - your instruments you ordered attached to your email.

Orders are normally delivered withing minutes but can take up to 24 hours to arrive in your inbox.

Email order.

9: Save or download the PDF of your instruments.

You can save the PDF copies of your instruments by saving them to your files or downloading it.

Save the PDF

Find the PDFs under the subject line at the top of the email.

Click on the arrow next to a PDF in the email. A drop-down menu will appear. 

From the menu select Save As or Save All Attachments and choose a location in your files to save it. Your attachments may appear in a different part of your email depending on your email provider. For example, for gmail your attachment may be at the bottom of the email.

Attachments.

Download the PDF

In the body of the email is a Click to download button. 

Select this button to download PDFs into your files. Usually PDFs will save to your download files.

You have 7 days to download the PDF. Your final date will be in the email.

After 7 days you won't be able to download it and  you'll need to re-order the instruments.

Download button.

My order didn't arrive or is incorrect

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