Landwrap October 2013 - Issue 103

Landwrap October 2013 - Issue 103

IE10 is now supported by LINZ

Official testing of Internet Explorer 10 (IE 10) in conjunction with Landonline has been successfully completed and has now been added to the list of supported browsers.

Refer to the current list of what LINZ currently supports (//www.linz.govt.nz/system-support/policies) .

Planning for testing of Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 has also commenced. The touch screen functionality in Windows 8 is however unlikely to be officially supported because current Landonline screens have not been designed to support this. Also worth noting is that Microsoft currently plans to withdraw extended support for Windows XP in April 2014 , so we are unlikely to be supporting Window XP from that point forward.

Landonline Disaster Recovery test happening over the weekend of 9/10 November 2013

Landonline will be unavailable to customers on Saturday 9th November 2013 while LINZ undertakes testing of its Disaster Recovery (DR) process.

It is important that LINZ undertakes this test from time to time to provide assurance that the Landonline system infrastructure components are in a DR-ready state, and all associated Landonline DR procedures are up to date.

If LINZ ever needed to move to the DR environment, we need to ensure we can be back online as soon as we practically can.

Landonline will be available until 7pm on Friday 8th November. Normal hours will resume at 6am on Monday 11th November.

Landonline Survey Plan Generation update

e-Survey users will have improved plan generation functionality when an update is rolled out to Landonline on Monday 18 November.

The release aims to make the plan layout process easier and more intuitive when creating a Cadastral Survey Dataset (CSD) in Landonline. Much of the new functionality comes from suggestions we have received from Landonline users.

New features include:

• The ability to zoom and pan using a combination of the mouse wheel and right mouse button.
• User added text is no longer restricted to three lines and alignment of the text to a line is simpler.
• The ability to add or reorder page numbers without affecting edits made to the diagrams on that page.

Release notes will be available for each of the enhancements on the Landonline website (//www.linz.govt.nz/land/landonline/landonline-releases-and-system-updates) .

Please note that the Offline Plan Generation (OPG) application download will no longer be available to download following this release.

Revised Registrar-General of Land guidelines

LINZ has revised some of its regulatory guidelines and published the amended guidelines on the LINZ website.

The revised guidelines and the amendments made are as follows:

Guideline for the deposit of survey plans for the subdivision of land - LINZG20708 (//www.linz.govt.nz/survey-titles/land-registration/land-titles- standards/DocumentSummary.aspx%3Fdocument%3D281)

This guideline is issued by the Registrar-General of Land (“RGL”) to ensure that all necessary approvals, certifications, and consents have been obtained before survey plans giving effect to the subdivision of land are deposited under the Land Transfer Act 1952.

The guideline has been amended as follows:

• The section on reclamation plans has been removed. Guidance on the requirements for the RGL to issue a computer register for reclaimed land is now provided in the Registration guideline for the Marine and Coastal Area Act 2011 - LINZG20726 (//www.linz.govt.nz/about- linz/news-publications-and-consultations/search-for-regulatory-documents/registration-  guideline-for-the-marine-and-coastal-area-act-2011-linzg20726) .
• Section 14 ‘Vesting as reserve or other land’ now refers to the Registration guideline for the Marine and Coastal Area Act 2011 - LINZG20726 (//www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/news- publications-and-consultations/search-for-regulatory-documents/registration-guideline-for-the-  marine-and-coastal-area-act-2011-linzg20726) in regard to land in the coastal marine area becoming part of the common marine and coastal area.
• Section 17 ‘Unit plans’ now refers to the Interim guideline for Unit Titles Act 2010 (//www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/news-publications-and-consultations/search-for-regulatory- documents/interim-guideline-for-unit-titles-act-2010-linzg2) in regard to subdivisions into units under the Unit Titles Act 2010.

Guideline for accretion claims - LINZG20711 (//www.linz.govt.nz/survey-titles/land-registration/land- titles-standards/DocumentSummary.aspx%3Fdocument%3D179)

This guideline provides guidance for making accretion applications and for considering those applications. Section 1 ‘Establishing that the doctrine of accretion applies’ has been amended by deleting references to the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 which was repealed on 1 April 2011.

Guideline for dry stream or river bed claims - LINZG20710 (//www.linz.govt.nz/survey-titles/land- registration/land-titles-standards/DocumentSummary.aspx%3Fdocument%3D178)

This guideline provides guidance for making applications for land formerly under water and processing those applications. Section 1 ‘Legal requirements’ has been amended by replacing the reference to the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 with a reference to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011.

Conveyancing Professional availability over the Christmas and New Year Period

A reminder to customers to ensure that you have made provision for staff to create, certify, sign and submit Landonline e-Dealings over the Christmas-New Year break.

If the Conveyancing Professional in your firm will be absent over this period, consider assigning a Conveyancing Professional from another firm to your firm. Applications take approximately five days to process. See here for more details /about-landonline/change-your-details/multiple-firm- association-for-landonline-users (//www.linz.govt.nz/node/11671)

You must never share your digital certificate with another member of staff as this will result in your Landonline access being suspended. Please familiarise yourself with the digital certificate terms and conditions.

For assistance from our Customer Support staff please call 0800 ONLINE (655 463).

CR and EC instrument codes to be made historic on 1 December 2013

From 1 December 2013 LINZ will be making the following Landonline instruments historic, meaning you will no longer be able to lodge new instruments using these codes from that date:

• CR - Change of Rules/Address of Body Corporate
• EC - Easement Certificate

The CR instrument has been used for lodging changes of the body corporates rules and addresses under the Unit Title Act 1972. That Act has now been replaced with the Unit Titles Act 2010 and separate codes were created for a change to the rules and for changes of address of body corporates. The correct codes which should be used are:

• CRUL - Unit Titles Act 2010 - Notice/Change of Rules - s105 & 106
• CADD - Unit Titles Act 2010 - Change of Address of Body Corporate

Any new instruments should be created using the 2010 Act codes and from 1 December 2013 you will no longer be able to create instruments using the CR code.

The EC instrument has been replaced by the EI (Easement Instrument) instrument in section 90A of the Land Transfer Act 1952 by section 43 of the Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002. Some practitioners have still been incorrectly lodging instruments in Landonline under the EC instrument code. Making the EC code historic means you will not be able to select it by mistake when preparing a dealing for registration.

Please note that easements created under section 90A of the Land Transfer Act 1952 will only be able to be lodged under the correct instrument type of:

• EI - Easement Instrument

Existing registered CR and EC instrument codes will retain their existing codes and status after 1 December without any changes. You may search and lodge dealings associated with them in the same way you could previously. E.g. you will still be able to vary or surrender an easement that has been registered in an Easement Certificate as Landonline will continue to recognise it in the Affected Instrument field.

Changing or correcting names - new guideline

LINZ has published a new Guideline for making applications to change or correct names in the Registrar-General of Land’s records: LINZG20704 on the LINZ website.

Read the new Guideline (//www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/news-publications-and-consultations/search- for-regulatory-documents/linzg20704)

The new guideline supersedes the previous Guideline for making application to change or correct names on the register LINZG20704.

The new guideline restates aspects of the previous guideline, and is updated and reorganised:

• to clearly set out the requirements for electronic applications
• to provide clearer guidance on the supporting documentation requirements for electronic and paper applications, including when a statutory declaration will be necessary
• to explain when a change or correction in the RGL’s records may not be necessary   to change the process for large-scale nationwide changes of name
• to note the RGL can change or correct names on Māori freehold land titles on receipt of an order made by the Māori Land Court.

Watch out for further articles about changing or correcting names in the RGL’s records in future issues of Landwrap.

Identity verification standard - new version

A new version of the Standard for verification of identity for registration under the Land Transfer Act 1952: LINZS20002 is now available.

A new version of the Standard for verification of identity for registration under the Land Transfer Act 1952: LINZS20002 (//www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/news-publications-and-consultations/search-for- regulatory-documents/linzs20002) is now available.

As before, the standard aims to ensure that landowners and other interested parties are properly identified to manage the risk of fraud or improper dealing in transactions with land.

The standard’s requirements for verifying identity of landowners and interested parties in land transactions are unchanged.

The Guidance material included at the end of the standard has been amended to better assist practitioners and interested parties to meet the standard’s requirements, by providing clearer guidance on:

• delegating verification of identity,
• obtaining rates demands etc to verify landowners’ identity,
• verifying identity of a client who a practitioner knows personally,
• dealing with name discrepancies between a client’s photographic ID and the computer register,
• verifying identity for ‘high risk’ transactions.

Watch out for further articles about verifying identity in future issues of Landwrap.

Geodetic control workshop material from NZIS conference now available

The LINZ National Geodetic Oice ran a workshop on Establishing and Replacing Order 5 Control Marks at the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors Conference on the 29 August in Dunedin.

The workshop covered placement of new geodetic marks, what to consider when in the field, how to process the GNSS observations, and finally what data LINZ needs in order to add new Order 5 marks into the geodetic database.

A brief outline of the workshop can be found on the LINZ website (//www.linz.govt.nz/geodetic/geodetic-programme/geodetic-control-pilot/nzis-geodetic-control- workshop) along with the workshop presentation, links to new and existing resources and responses to questions raised during the workshop.