Landwrap March 2014 - Issue 107

Landwrap March 2014 - Issue 107

Landonline and Customer Support Easter Hours

Landonline and LINZ Customer Support will be closed over the Easter and ANZAC Day long weekends.

Landonline and Customer Support will be unavailable from Friday 18 April through to Monday 21 April.  Normal hours of service will resume on Tuesday 22 April. Both services will be closed again on 25 April for ANZAC Day. Check out the Landonline website for more information about Landonline and Customer Support opening hours 

From everyone here at LINZ, have safe and happy long weekends!

Landonline Citrix security warnings 

What to do if you get a Citrix pop-up security message when working in Landonline.

File Security Warning

If you encounter this message while using Landonline, select “Permit all access”

If the message appears again:

1. Login to Landonline and double click on the Citrix icon in your menu bar.
2. The About Citrix Receiver window will appear.
3. Click on 'Advanced' and then 'Connection Center'.
4. Check that Files security is set to Full Access.
5. Click on Close in the Citrix Connection Center window. 
6. Click on OK in the About Citrix Receiver window.

Request for permission to use a key

When logging into Landonline and after selecting your Digital Certificate, you may see the following window. You need to select “Grant permission”. This is part of the Digital Certificate security settings.

What’s coming up for customers in the next Landonline release

LINZ is currently testing new functionality for the 3.10 Landonline maintenance release. The update is scheduled for June, provided testing is successful, but it is possible the date may change closer to the time.

Key items in this release include:

For conveyancers

• the ability to release all instruments in a dealing in a single action
• several changes to A&I forms, making them easier to edit in Landonline and when saved to file, and additional automatic entry of key information e.g. transferor and transferee names
• improving the management of dealings in workspace including options to:
  • create new folders in the Workspace Tree to store and manage dealings 
  • display dealings in the Tree by dealing number, client reference or both, etc.

For surveyors

• implementing Stage 2 of plan layout functionality, including:
  • the ability to choose user preferences for plan generation
  • auto-save options
  • ability to hide 00” in the properties box for displayed vectors
• the ability to add or remove areas from existing diagrams diagram extents   the ability for the system to display diagram labels when deleting diagrams
• relabeling the ‘Coordinate System’ to ‘Meridional Circuit’ in line with RCS2010
• creation of a new supporting document type to allow a graphic of survey information to be attached to CSD plans
• disabling the export function to Offline Plan Generation.

For TA users and surveyors

• automatic population of the TA name and plan number when creating a TA certificate. In the past these had to be manually entered.

For all users, the My Messages area will display appropriate Survey File References, TA References and Dealing Client References against listed messages.

The full list of items in the 3.10 release and detailed information on those changes will be published in the updates section of the Landonline website 

LINZ website refresh - help us structure the site

We are currently refreshing the LINZ and Landonline websites, and as part of this work, we are seeking your input.

Take a look at this video which gives an overview of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. In essence, it’s all about making it easier for customers like yourselves to find the information you need from LINZ.

As well as making content easier to find and access, the site will have a more contemporary look and feel, the site search will return more accurate results, and audience landing pages will be created to meet the needs of surveyors and other key groups of customers.

How you can help

When you have a few minutes to spare, please complete this card sorting exercise. This will help us decide how content on the site should be structured.

You can continue to be involved as we refresh the site: simply enter your email address when prompted at the end of the card sorting exercise. Thanks to those who have already registered their interest.

Thanks in advance for your time and your contribution – we really appreciate your help in improving the website for yourselves and other customers.

If you have a question, please feel free to contact the Digital Services team.

Variations of mortgage and mortgagee consent

This article considers whether a prior mortgagee must consent to the variation of a later registered mortgage under s 102(4) Land Transfer Act 1952.

Section 102 of the Land Transfer Act 1952 deals with the variation of mortgages. Subsection (4) of that section reads:

“(4) If the land is subject to another mortgage, the consent of the mortgagee under that mortgage must be obtained.”

On a literal interpretation, that provision does not make a distinction between another mortgage registered before or subsequent to the mortgage being varied.

The current subsection (4) was inserted in 2002. Prior to that amendment, section 102(4) was worded differently, and more clearly required only the consent of a mortgagee whose mortgage was subsequent to the mortgage being varied.

It is clear that the 2002 change to the subsection, which ostensibly extended the consent requirement to all mortgagees, was not intended to catch prior mortgages. The Law Commission has also noted this anomaly and recommended that it be rectified in its report entitled A New Land Transfer Act.

Consequently, the Registrar will not be asking for the consent of mortgagees whose mortgages have priority over the mortgage being varied, and it will only be necessary to obtain the consent of mortgagees of mortgages that are subsequent to the mortgage being varied.

However it should be noted that the situation is quite different in respect of leases and easements. The relevant provisions that deal with variations to leases and easements require the consent of the mortgagees of both prior and subsequent mortgages. See sections 116(7) and 90E(3) Land Transfer Act 1952.