NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 106/23

Registration of Deeds Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Registration of Deeds Act, 2009
(O.C. 2023-295)

(Filed December 21, 2023)

Under the authority of section 38.1 of the Registration of Deeds Act, 2009, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, December 20, 2023.

Krista Quinlan
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

        2.   S.12 Amdt.
Paper format registration

        3.   S.13.1 Added

              Use of audio-visual technology

NLR 110/10
as amended

        1. Section 2 of the Registration of Deeds Regulations is amended by adding immediately before paragraph (a) the following:

       (a.01)  "Act" means the Registration of Deeds Act, 2009;

 

        2. Subsection 12(5) of the regulations is amended by deleting the words "he or she" and substituting the words "the person".

 

        3. The regulations are amended by adding immediately after section 13 the following:

Use of audio-visual technology

   13.1 Where a commissioner for oaths or a notary public witnesses an instrument in accordance with section 15 of the Act through the use of audio-visual technology, the commissioner for oaths or notary public shall

             (a)  take all reasonable steps to verify the identity of the person signing the instrument;

             (b)  state on the instrument that it was witnessed through the use of audio-visual technology in accordance with the Act and these regulations; and

             (c)  comply with the requirements in the Law Society Rules of Newfoundland and Labrador related to the witnessing of documents through the use of audio-visual technology.

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