NRS-21527 | Primary Application Search Books

Full description

Generally, Primary Applications are applications made by owners of land under Old System title for conversion to the Torrens Title system, which provides one State guaranteed title document evidencing ownership. Primary Applications may also be used to remove a Caution on a qualified Torrens Title; the caution being a warning that a Torrens Title may be subject or affected by interests not recorded, investigate or disclosed.

In a Primary Application, the applicant is required to provide all documents that support a “good root of title”; essentially, a chain of documents which supports ownership and any other interests that affects that title to land.

Part of the examination processing of a Primary Application involves LPI officers undertaking searches of Old System records on the basis, and in conjunction with the records supplied in the Primary Application. One of the resulting reports from the search conducted is known as an epitome of title.

The epitome of title will show in chronological order the devolution of title to the land in the application from a selected commencement point to the date of the search, and will include reference to all documents whether registered or not appearing to affect the title over the period searched.

This report and other reports are relied on by legal officers in approving the application and providing direction on how the unqualified Torrens Title should issue.

Epitomes of title prepared by LPI Officers bearing the same number reference as Primary Application, and have been made available as a public record under the description of Primary Application Search books. The volumes contain the applications lodged and supporting documentation required to undertake the search.

These records were produced as part of the processing and investigation of Primary Applications and were released as Public Records at a later point in time.

Official Search volumes contain the applications lodged and supporting documentation required to undertake the search. Records are organised numerically by Primary Application Search number, and section-sewn into bound volumes of no more than 100 searches.

These records are organised numerically by Primary Application search number. The volumes have been dis-bound for digitisation purposes.