10 Transparency Declaration Required With Application To Register Interest In Land
10 (1) On an application to register an interest in land, each transferee must file with the administrator a transparency declaration that contains the following information:
(a) whether or not the transferee is a reporting body;
(b) if the transferee is a reporting body, whether or not the reporting body is
(i) a relevant corporation,
(ii) a trustee of a relevant trust, or
(iii) a partner of a relevant partnership;
(c) prescribed information.
(2) A transparency declaration must be filed by submitting the declaration to the registrar, together with the application to register the interest in land.
(3) A transparency declaration submitted under subsection (2) must be certified in accordance with section 25 [certification of transparency declarations and transparency reports].
(4) If the application to register referred to in subsection (2) is submitted under Part 10.1 [Electronic Filing] of the Land Title Act,
(5) If the application to register referred to in subsection (2) is not submitted under Part 10.1 of the Land Title Act,
(a) the transparency declaration must be submitted in the form and manner required by the administrator under section 87(1) [how documents must be given to registrar or administrator] of this Act, and
(b) the applicable filing fee must be paid at the time and in the manner required by the administrator under section 89(1) [how fees must be paid to authority] of this Act.
Transparency Declaration
Hardcopy submissions are only accepted under the exemptions set out in the E-filing Directions v. 1.7, available at https://ltsa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/E-filing-Directions.pdf. Forms can be obtained at https://ltsa.ca/property-owners/make-changes-to-title/changes-to-ownership/.
Electronic Submissions
Electronic transparency declaration forms must be completed online and submitted to the registrar using a myLTSA Enterprise account and comply with the instructions provided in the Administrator's Requirements for Filing and Applications, v. 1.1, available at www.landtransparency.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Administrator-Requirements-for-Filing-and-Applications-v1.1.pdf.
Hardcopy Submissions
Hardcopy submissions are only accepted where the LOTA requires that the transparency declaration be submitted with an application to register an interest in land, and the application to register is received by the registrar under the exemptions set out in the E-filing Directions or on an exceptions basis as permitted by the registrar in accordance with the E-filing Directions v. 1.7, available at https://ltsa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/E-filing-Directions.pdf.
The administrator has designated the paper forms for transparency records, published at www.landtransparency.ca.
Paper transparency record forms must be completed in compliance with the instructions provided in s. 2.3 of the Administrator's Requirements for Filing and Applications.
Where an application to register an interest in land includes more than one transferee, all the required transparency declarations must be made on one electronic transparency declaration form.