Real Property Act 1900

This section applies to—

plans lodged for the purposes of this Act, and

other documents required, under this Act or another Act, to be lodged with the plans.

A reference in this Act—

to a plan or another document includes a reference to an electronic data file containing a plan or another document in an electronic form, and

to the lodging of a plan or another document includes a reference to the electronic lodging of a plan or another document in an electronic form approved by the Registrar-General, and

to a sheet of a plan or another document that is in electronic form, is a reference to a sheet on which the whole or part of the plan or other document would be reproduced if the plan or other document were converted to hard copy form without re-pagination.

If a plan is lodged electronically, all documents required to be lodged with the plan must also be lodged electronically in a form approved by the Registrar-General, unless excepted by—

regulations under this Act or another Act, or

the Registrar-General.

Any signature, seal, certificate, consent or other approval required to authenticate, or to authorise the registration or recording of, a plan proposed to be lodged in electronic form is to be endorsed on an approved form for signatures. When the plan is lodged, that form must also be lodged electronically in an electronic form approved by the Registrar-General.

This Act applies to and in respect of plans and other documents lodged in electronic form in the same way as it applies to other plans and documents, subject to any modifications prescribed by this Act or the Conveyancing Act 1919 or the regulations under either of those Acts.