Completing and lodging forms
Use of land registry forms
Land Registry forms are used to record property transactions relating to titles for land and water allocations. A completed form must be lodged at a DERM business centre that accepts these forms. At the time of lodgement a regulated fee is payable.
Accessing and completing forms
Land registry forms (with pop-up information to help you complete them) and guides for completing the more commonly used forms are available online.
You can complete these forms online and print them for signing and lodgement.
Read important information about completing land registry forms (PDF, 28K)*.
Lodging forms
You can lodge forms during office hours (8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday), at a DERM business centre in Beenleigh; Bundaberg; Caboolture; Cairns; Gold Coast (Robina); Gympie; Ipswich; Kingaroy; Mackay; Maryborough; Nambour; Rockhampton; Roma; Toowoomba, Townsville and Level 11, 53 Albert St (cnr Margaret St) Brisbane.
Completed forms can also be posted but an additional fee will usually apply.
The lodger of a form is responsible for ensuring that completed forms are accurate and legally correct and, where there are multiple forms, lodged in the correct sequence.
At lodgement, departmental officers do not examine forms for correctness or compliance with legislative requirements.
Lodgement fees
Lodgement officers assess these documents to calculate and collect the regulated lodgement fees. The online Titles Registry fee calculator can be used for the most common transactions.
The documents will be accepted for lodgement in the Titles Registry only after the fees have been paid in full.
Payment methods
Lodgement fees can be paid by:
- cash
- cheque or money order (payable to Department of Environment and Resource Management)
- travellers’ cheque (Australian currency)
- EFTPOS and credit card (except Diners Club) for amounts over $10.
In all cases, the department will issue the lodger with a receipt for the fees paid.
How forms are processed
Once a form is accepted by the Titles Registry it is:
- entered into the automated titles system
- subjected to a detailed compliance examination
- registered on title only if it complies with legislative requirements.
After your document has been registered and relevant details recorded, you will receive a confirmation statement indicating that processing is complete.
If your form or associated documentation does not comply with legislative requirements you will be notified by a requisition notice. If you receive a requisition notice by email, your documents will be sent to you separately by registered post. After you receive your documents you must comply with the requirements of the requisition notice and then return all documents to the lodgement office.
Complying with a requisition notice
When a form is requisitioned a regulated fee must be paid for the issue of the notice.
A form will be registered only if deficiencies stated in a requisition notice are attended to, the form returned and the requisition fee paid. Read important information about complying with Titles Registry requisition notices (PDF, 33K)*.
Getting further information
If you require further information about the requirements for completing and lodging land registry forms contact the customer enquiry service.
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Last updated 3 January 2012