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register will be restricted by keeping the terminals in a secure area inside the Registrar-General's Office. The electronic record will provide additional security from damage as a backup copy can be made and kept at a separate location. This reduces the chances of information on the register being lost through disaster such as fire, smoke or water damage.
Other jurisdictions are moving towards computerisation of their land titles registers. New South Wales already has in place a system similar to the one which our titles office will use. Tasmania too is close to introducing automation. Eventually it is hoped that there will be uniform legislation and procedures across Australia which, with the aid of electronic systems, will allow each State and Territory titles office to be an agent for the others. This, of course, is in the future, but the groundwork can be laid with this Bill. In the meantime, these amendments will allow the introduction of a system which will have many benefits to the ACT community and will bring us into line with procedures in New South Wales. Madam Speaker, I present an explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
REAL PROPERTY (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL 1993
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (11.15): Madam Speaker, I present the Real Property (Consequential Provisions) Bill 1993.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Real Property (Amendment) Bill 1993, which is before this Assembly, contains amendments to the Real Property Act 1925 to enable information on the land titles register to be placed on computer. The amendments remove references which can relate only to the manual paper based system of keeping the register, such as "register book" and "stamp". They are replaced with expressions which can relate to a range of record-keeping options.
There are a number of other unrelated pieces of legislation which contain references to the Real Property Act. As a result of the proposed changes to that Act and the adoption of a computer based system for keeping titles records, those references will need updating. The necessary amendments are contained in the Real Property (Consequential Provisions) Bill 1993. Amendments of this kind are needed when an Act like the Real Property Act, which establishes an important administrative framework, is changed. It is because a number of Acts deal with ownership of land, either directly or indirectly, that this Bill is needed to avoid the confusion of inconsistent references.
The amendments are minor and technical in nature, but are necessary to allow for the efficient introduction of the new automated land titles register. None of the amendments in this Bill will alter rights and interests presently existing under the Acts which are being amended; nor will the operation of those Acts be affected.
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