REGISTRATION REGULATIONS 2009

The instrument turns administrative acts into priced services. The main legal mechanics are these.

• Fee prescription mechanism. Regulation 3 directly ties prescribed fees, charges and levies to the items listed in Schedule 1. The list links each fee to a dealing or other matter under a named Act and to the relevant section of that Act where appropriate. The Schedule therefore functions as a tariff schedule that the Registrar-General and agency staff apply when accepting, recording, registering or searching documents.

• Revenue units as the base measure. Most fees are expressed in "revenue units". The Regulations do not, within the text provided, set the monetary value of a revenue unit. This means a conversion step is required to turn the Schedule entries into a dollar amount at the time a transaction occurs. The presence of a revenue units convention decouples the numeric schedule from a fixed dollar figure allowing indexing or revaluation through separate processes outside the text of the Regulations.

• Levies as separate dollar charges. Many land title items include a separate "Levy" column showing a dollar amount, commonly $10 for many items. The Schedule therefore imposes two different kinds of payable amounts for many transactions: the fee stated in revenue units and the corresponding levy in dollars. Both must be checked when calculating the total payable.

• Scale and multiplicative charges. Several items impose fees that scale with the number of units, certificates or affected interests. Examples include registration of scheme statements and plans where an initial fee is payable plus a per-unit component (for example Schedule 1 Part 1, item 12: registration of a scheme statement 115 revenue units plus 115 revenue units for each unit of the scheme). Similarly, plans under the Unit Titles Act attract tiered fees based on the number of units (Part 5, item 2). Additional fees apply where multiple certificates as to title are endorsed.

• Inclusion and exclusion triggers. The Schedule specifies exceptions and triggers. For example, an application to correct the land register is charged except where the correction is made by the Registrar-General on his or her own initiative (Part 1, item 4 indicates the fee is for "Application to correct land register to amend plan of survey" but notes the exception in the descriptive column). Where the Registrar-General acts of their own motion, the application fee language indicates a different treatment.

• Electronic conveyancing items. The Schedule contains small, granular fees for interactions with Electronic Lodgement Network Operators (ELNOs) under the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (NT), including per-document or per-lot confirmation or correction fees (Part 1, item 81(a)-(d)). These are distinct from paper-based access fees and reflect the regime’s accommodation of electronic conveyancing.

• Ancillary service fees. The Schedule lists photocopying charges per page, certified copy charges, requisition fees, postage, and remote access fees for retrieval of documents from the land register. These ancillary charges are set at low unit values but apply per document or per page, and therefore scale with the volume of documentation.

• Repeals and amendment record. Schedule 2 lists prior Registration Regulations and various amendment instruments that are repealed. The endnotes provide the timeline of subsequent amendment instruments, listing specific subordinate legislation numbers and commencement dates. This creates an audit trail for how the fee schedule has been adjusted over time.

In short, the Regulations are a tariff instrument. The dominant legal concepts are the mapping of registry activities to quantifiable fees, the tiering and multiplicative structures for fees that depend on scale of the dealing, the dual use of revenue units plus monetary levies, and the separate treatment of electronic conveyancing interactions. Every relevant chargeable event under the listed Acts is covered by reference to a Schedule item, which is the primary legal source for calculating a payable amount to the Registrar-General or Land Titles Office.

The Regulations impose direct costs and administrative steps on a defined set of actors who interact with Northern Territory land and registry systems. The primary affected parties are:

• Applicants and private individuals lodging instruments. Private persons who lodge documents for registration under the Land Title Act 2000, the Unit Titles Act 1975, the Powers of Attorney Act 1980, the Advance Personal Planning Act 2013, or related Acts are the direct payers of the fees in Schedule 1. Examples in the Schedule include registering a power of attorney (Part 3), registering a mortgage or discharge (Part 1), lodgment of plans (Part 5) and lodgment of notice of proposed termination (Part 4A).

• Conveyancers, solicitors and licensed practitioners. Professional practitioners who prepare and lodge documents on behalf of clients will bear the fee obligations for clients and must factor the prescribed fees into transaction costs. The Schedule includes fees for multiple certificates and per-unit fees that will be relevant to conveyancers managing large developments, strata schemes or complex property portfolios.

• Bodies corporate and developers. Corporate entities involved in unit developments, scheme terminations, or registration of scheme statements face scaled charges (for example registration of subsequent scheme statements and scheme termination documents carry per-unit components). The Termination of Units Plans and Unit Title Schemes Act 2014 item in Part 4A imposes a lodgment fee that scales with the number of units, exposing developers and body corporates to potentially large fees for large schemes.

• Mortgagees, trustees and creditors. Parties exercising security or enforcement rights under property law, such as mortgagees lodging notices, discharging statutory charges or registering caveats, must pay fees. Items include registration of mortgages, discharges, and lodging of caveats (caveat lodgment is charged at 200 revenue units under Part 1, item 58).

• Executors, personal representatives and trustees. The Schedule contains fees for registering personal representative applications and for recording transmissions under bankruptcy laws. Executors registering title-related documentation must pay the prescribed fees.

• Land Titles Office users and remote access customers. Users who access digital land register documents pay per-document remote access fees (Part 1, item 73: 20 revenue units for remote access, 29 if accessed using in-office equipment or staff). Government agencies, banks and ELNOs that access matter records will bear these costs.

• Electronic Lodgement Network Operators (ELNOs) and their subscribers. The Schedule contains specific items for the ELNO interface (Part 1, item 81), implying costs for ELNOs or subscribers when retrieving particulars, confirming lodgment eligibility, identifying changed particulars or correcting instruments.

• The Registrar-General and Northern Territory administration. Although not a fee payer, the Registrar-General is the decision-maker and fee recipient. The Schedule makes discrete distinctions about when fees apply to applications versus when the Registrar-General acts on their own initiative (for example corrections to the register may be free if done by the Registrar-General without an application). The administrative burden of applying, collecting and accounting for these fees falls to the Land Titles Office and associated registry staff.

Distributional effects are concentrated. Large developers and financial institutions may carry large aggregate bills because many items scale by number of units or certificates. Conversely, many everyday conveyancing acts remain subject to modest fixed fees or small per-document charges. The use of both revenue units and levies introduces an additional conversion and accounting step for every payer. The Schedule therefore shapes transaction costs across a broad range of market actors who interact with the NT’s land and registry systems.

The Regulations establish obligations to pay prescribed fees and levies in order to obtain registry services, and they create procedural rights relating to access to documents and registration services.

Duties

• Duty to remit fees on lodgment or registration. Any person lodging, registering or requesting a prescribed dealing listed in Schedule 1 is required to pay the fee specified for that dealing (regulation 3 and Schedule 1). The description in each item indicates whether the fee is levied for the initial registration, for endorsement of certificates as to title, for searches, or for ancillary services like certified copies.

• Duty to pay additional or multiplicative fees where applicable. Several items explicitly state that fees are payable in addition to other fees, for example registration of scheme statements often carries a base fee plus an amount per unit (Schedule 1 Part 1, item 12; Part 5 items for unit plans). Applicants therefore have a duty to calculate aggregate fees where multiple fee components apply.

• Duty to pay levies in dollars where shown. For many land title items a separate dollar levy applies in addition to the revenue unit fee. The levy column in Schedule 1 sets out these dollar levies, commonly $10, and the payer must include those levies in the payment.

• Duty to pay for access and copies. Users accessing the land register remotely, in-office or via staff assistance must pay per-document access fees (Schedule 1 Part 1, item 73). Photocopying and facsimile charges per page and certified copy charges also impose duties to pay for document reproduction.

• Duty to provide instruments in appropriate form to avoid alternative fees. Certain items refer to instruments that are not in the appropriate form and charge an alternate fee (Schedule 1 Part 1 items 69 and 70). That creates an incentive duty for preparers to lodge documents in approved forms to avoid the alternative charge.

Rights

• Right to obtain the specified registry services upon payment. The core right conferred is the entitlement to registration, recording, search, copy or related services from the Registrar-General or the Land Titles Office in exchange for the prescribed fee. While the Regulations do not set procedural timeframes, payment of the specified fee is a prerequisite to the corresponding administrative act.

• Right to electronic interactions and defined charges. The Schedule includes fees for electronic conveyancing operations performed via ELNOs, defining per-item fees for confirmation, correction and provision of particulars (Part 1, item 81). Users have the right to obtain these electronic services at the specified rates.

• Right to access documents. The Schedule creates a priced right of access to documents in the land register or captured by the Registrar-General. This right is conditional on payment of the per-document access fee applicable to the mode of access chosen.

• Right to differentiated fees based on form and context. The Schedule recognises circumstances where a lower fee applies, for example registering an advance personal plan where a power of attorney is lodged and the donor is the represented adult attracts a materially lower fee (Part 1AA, item 1(a): 20 revenue units) compared to other registrations (115 revenue units). Those conditional rights create predictable differentiation for users who meet particular factual prerequisites.

Decision-making and discretion

• Registrar-General’s operational role. The Regulations do not create discretionary fee waivers; however, they acknowledge that where the Registrar-General corrects the register of their own initiative, the applicant’s fee for a corrective application may not be charged (see exception language in Schedule 1 Part 1 items relating to corrections). The Registrar-General is therefore the operational node that decides when registry activity triggers a prescribed fee and when the registrar acts without an applicant-driven charge.

• Interaction with other Acts. Rights and duties under these Regulations are dependent on definitions and triggers in the principal Acts referenced in Schedule 1. For example the right to register a power of attorney will depend on the provisions of the Powers of Attorney Act 1980, and the fee position for lodging a notice of forfeiture relies on the Land Title Act 2000 sections cited alongside the item.

The Regulations are therefore primarily about money and access. They impose a duty to pay a defined tariff for discrete registry services and at the same time define the right to those services where the correct fees are tendered. The detailed itemisation in Schedule 1 requires payers to map their factual dealing to the correct line item and to compute any additional per-unit or per-certificate charges.

The text of the Registration Regulations 2009 is exclusively a fee schedule with commencement and repeal provisions. The Regulations themselves do not create criminal offences, civil penalties, or an explicit enforcement regime beyond prescribing charges. However, enforcement and penalty consequences arise by operation of the underlying Acts and the normal administrative processes of the Registrar-General and the Land Titles Office. The source document provides the following enforcement-relevant pointers.

• Fees are payable as a condition of the service. Implicit in the organisation of Schedule 1 is that registry actions require payment of the specified fee and levy. The Land Titles Office operational practice, governed by the underlying Land Title Act 2000, Unit Titles Acts and other principal Acts, ordinarily makes acceptance, registration or issue of certificates conditional on payment. The Regulations set the tariff; operational refusal to accept or to register where fees are unpaid is the natural administrative enforcement mechanism, though the Regulations themselves do not prescribe that refusal language.

• Distinguishing applicant-driven and Registrar-General-driven corrections. The Schedule contains carve-outs such as "unless correction by Registrar-General on his or her own initiative" for certain correction items. This creates a regime in which applicants who request corrections will attract fees, whereas corrective action initiated by the Registrar-General may not be charged. The Registrar-General’s exercise of initiative therefore functions as a de facto enforcement lever and an administrative cost-shifting mechanism.

• Interaction with principal Acts for formal penalties. Many of the actions that attract fees under Schedule 1 are activities that the principal legislation makes subject to statutory consequences if performed incorrectly or if required steps are not followed. For example, lodging incorrect documents, improper disclosure statements, or contravening registration requirements under the Unit Titles Act or Land Title Act may attract statutory implications in those Acts, including invalidity of transactions or other administrative responses. Enforcement of those consequences falls to the provisions of the principal Acts, not the fee Regulations.

• No express late-payment penalty or civil recovery mechanism in these Regulations. Schedule 1 does not set out late fees, interest on overdue fees, penalty amounts or specific recovery procedures. Recovery of unpaid fees would proceed under the ordinary financial management and debt recovery processes of the Northern Territory public service and the statutory provisions in the relevant principal Acts, if any.

• Administrative compliance and operational sanctions. The Land Titles Office and Registrar-General exercise operational controls, such as refusing to issue certificates as to title, not registering instruments, or rejecting lodgments until fees are paid. Those practical enforcement steps are implied by the dependency of registration actions on payment rather than being spelled out in these Regulations.

• Reliance on other statutory enforcement mechanisms. Any sanction, prosecution or civil recovery related to fee evasion, false claims to avoid fees, or fraudulent documents is governed by the criminal or civil provisions in the principal Acts or in general law. The Regulations do not create new offences or enforcement pathways.

In sum, the Registration Regulations set the tariff. Enforcement is primarily administrative: payment is a precondition to service, and the Registrar-General, guided by the principal Acts, implements the practical refusal or acceptance of documents. For information about criminal or civil penalties arising from non-compliance with the underlying Acts, one must consult those Acts themselves, as the fee schedule does not create or specify such penalties.

The Regulations operate only in concert with the suite of principal Acts that create the registrable dealings and define the legal effects of registration. The Schedule precisely links each fee item to the statutory provision under which the dealing arises, which creates a clear dependency structure.

• Dependent on principal Acts for triggering events and form requirements. Each Schedule item refers to a dealing or matter under a named Act and often cites the specific section of that Act. For example, registering an advance personal plan is linked to section 55C(1)(a) of the Advance Personal Planning Act 2013 (Schedule 1 Part 1AA item 1). Similarly, many land title items reference sections of the Land Title Act 2000 (for example issue of certificate as to title, s 44). Registration, the form of instruments, notice requirements and legal effect are governed by the cited Act; the Regulation only prescribes the fee for that act.

• Tends to be complementary, not substitutive. The fee schedule does not alter substantive rights or registration effects created by the principal Acts. It is complementary: to exercise a right conferred by the underlying Act, a person must pay the fee prescribed by these Regulations. It therefore functions as an enabling administrative overlay that makes the exercise of statutory rights conditional on payment.

• Interaction with electronic conveyancing legislation. The Schedule has discrete items tailored to the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (NT) interaction (Schedule 1 Part 1 item 81). Those entries create a direct cross-reference to the ELNO framework defined in the National Law and therefore impose fees for ELNO-related services. The Regulations align registry fees with operational realities of electronic conveyancing.

• Conversion requirement via separate administrative instruments. Most fees are expressed in "revenue units". The monetary effect of the fee therefore depends on the conversion rate of a revenue unit to dollars which is determined outside the Regulations, typically by a financial or Treasury instrument. Practitioners must therefore read these Regulations together with the administrative instrument or schedule that sets the monetary value of the revenue unit applicable at the time of lodging the dealing.

• Co-existence with repealed subordinate legislation and amendment instruments. Schedule 2 lists prior Registration Regulations and various amendment instruments that the 2009 Regulations repeal. The endnotes record a chronological list of instruments that have amended fees and other particulars over time. To interpret current liabilities and historical rates, one must consult that amendment history and the Gazette notices of commencement referred to in the endnotes.

• Interaction with the Registrar-General’s discretionary powers. The Schedule includes items that explicitly exclude fees in cases where corrections are made by the Registrar-General of their own initiative. That creates an interaction between the fee schedule and the Registrar-General’s powers to correct the register without charging an applicant. This reflects a policy choice located in the operation of the principal Acts and administrative practice rather than a standalone power in the Regulations.

• Relationship with postal and document reproduction rules. Items for postage, photocopying and certified copies interact with procedural requirements for document display and evidence under the principal Acts. The Schedule quantifies reproduction costs but does not modify evidentiary rules or the effect of certified copies produced under the principal Acts.

To conclude, the Regulations do not operate in legal isolation. They are an administrative adjunct to the substantive law in the underlying Acts. You must read the Schedule in tandem with the cited sections of those Acts, the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (NT) when relevant, and the separate administrative instruments that determine the monetary conversion of revenue units and other procedural costs.

The Regulations include their own amendment record in the endnotes and Schedule 2. The reprint’s endnotes provide a chronological record of subordinate legislation that has amended the fee schedule or otherwise affected the Regulations since their initial notification.

• Initial notification and commencement. The Registration Regulations (SL No. 20, 2009) were notified 26 June 2009 and were scheduled to commence 1 July 2009 in coordination with the Unit Title Schemes Act 2009 (endnotes, item 2). Regulation 2 in the instrument ties commencement to the commencement of s 109 of the Unit Title Schemes Act 2009.

• Early amendments. Fees and Charges Amendment Regulations 2009 (SL No. 34, 2009) were notified 14 December 2009 and commenced 1 January 2010. The reprint’s list of amendments in endnote 4 shows that Schedule 1 was substituted or amended by No. 34, 2009 (r 8) and further amended by No. 14, 2011 (r 9) and No. 27, 2013 (r 8).

• 2014-2015 adjustments. A series of Registration Amendment Regulations in 2014 and 2015 made further adjustments. The Registration Amendment Regulations 2014 (SL No. 5, 2014) were notified 17 March 2014 and commenced the same day to coincide with the Advance Personal Planning Act 2013 (endnotes indicate the amendment and commencement linkage). Further Registration Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2014 (SL No. 22), (No. 3) 2014 (SL No. 50) and Registration Amendment Regulations 2015 (SL No. 36, 2015) are listed with their notification and commencement dates in the endnotes.

• 2021 and 2022 amendments. The Justice Legislation Amendment Regulations 2021 (SL No. 18, 2021) were notified 3 November 2021 and commenced 3 November 2021, and the Registration Amendment Regulations 2022 (SL No. 4, 2022) were notified 4 April 2022 and commenced 5 April 2022.

• 2025 amendment. The Land Title and Registration Amendment Regulations 2025 (SL No. 9, 2025) were notified 30 July 2025 and commenced 1 August 2025, according to the endnotes.

• Formal interpretation amendments. The Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) made general formal amendments of a technical nature to r 1 and Schedule 1 and 2, as recorded in endnote 3. These are characterised as formal or editorial amendments rather than policy-level fee changes.

• Repeals of prior regulations. Schedule 2 of the 2009 Regulations lists the earlier subordinate legislation repealed by this instrument: Registration Regulations 1991 (SL No. 63 of 1991) and a series of amendment instruments from 1993 through 2003, as well as later variations and amendment texts that the Schedule now repeals.

The reprint’s List of Legislation in the endnotes provides the subordinate legislation numbers and the Gazette dates for notification and commencement of each amending instrument. For a practitioner tracking fee changes over time, the endnotes establish the authoritative sequence of amendments; any historical fee liability or retrospective charge must be reconciled by reference to the version of the Schedule in force at the relevant time, and to the Gazette notices that fixed commencement dates.

The Registration Regulations 2009 text and its accompanying endnotes do not include or cite any judicial decisions, case law, or litigation outcomes. The instrument is a subordinate regulation that prescribes fees and repeals prior regulations; it does not contain judicial interpretation or adjudicative material within its text. The source therefore records no litigation history within the instrument itself.

For practitioners seeking to know whether particular fee items, administrative applications or Registrar-General decisions under the principal Acts have been the subject of litigation, the Regulations do not provide that information. Any litigation bearing on the interpretation of fees, the Registrar-General’s discretion to waive or not charge fees, or the application of the relevant principal Acts (Land Title Act 2000, Unit Titles Act 1975, Powers of Attorney Act 1980, Advance Personal Planning Act 2013, etc) must be identified by searching case law databases and tribunal records outside the Regulation text.

What is recorded in the Regulations are only the legislative amendment and commencement instruments, not dispute outcomes. The endnotes supply a chain of amending subordinate legislation and dates (for example SL Nos and commencement dates listed in the endnotes) but do not cite judicial decisions. If a user requires authoritative judicial interpretations of how particular fees should be applied in borderline factual situations, that material will be located in the case law applying the principal Acts and in administrative law decisions concerning the Registrar-General or Land Titles Office. Those materials are outside the scope of the Schedule and are not contained in the Regulations as provided.

In short, the Regulations supply only the statutory tariff and amendment timeline. They contain no litigation history or cited judicial authorities. Users should therefore consult external judicial sources for any interpretive controversy arising from the application of the fee schedule or the registrar’s practice.

The Schedule appears straightforward but contains many practical traps that can increase costs or cause unexpected administrative friction if overlooked.

• Revenue units require conversion. Fees are stated in "revenue units". The Regulations do not specify the dollar value of one revenue unit. Practitioners must convert the revenue unit amount into dollars using the current monetary value of a revenue unit set by the Northern Territory’s financial instruments. Failure to apply the correct conversion will underpay or overpay fees. The Schedule does not provide the conversion factor, so a user must check current Treasury or Registrar-General guidance.

• Dual charges: fee plus levy. Many items list both a fee (in revenue units) and a separate levy in dollars, commonly $10. The total payable is the sum of both components. It is easy to overlook the levy when calculating the total cost of lodging or registering documents.

• Additive and multiplicative charges. Numerous items impose a base fee plus an additional fee per unit, per certificate as to title, per affected unit or per page. Examples include scheme registration and unit plan lodgments where per-unit charges multiply quickly for large schemes (Schedule 1 Part 1 item 12; Part 5 item 2). Practitioners drafting budgets for developers must model large-scheme costs carefully.

• Registrar-General initiative exception. Several correction items specify that the fee applies unless the correction is made by the Registrar-General on their own initiative. That can create a strategic choice: an applicant may pay to seek a correction, or they might request the Registrar-General to correct on initiative. Administrative practice and timing implications matter. The Schedule does not prescribe criteria for the registrar initiating corrections, so relying on this exception without clear administrative guidance is risky.

• Instrument form and alternate fees. Items 69 and 70 allow alternate fees where instruments are not in the appropriate form. Preparing instruments in the prescribed forms will often attract a lower fee. Failure to use the correct form may trigger the higher alternate fee and likely a requisition (Schedule 1 item 77: requisition 48 revenue units), causing delay and extra cost.

• Page-count surcharges. Item 69 charges $10 where a document exceeds two separate pages in length; each additional page can attract extra cost and affect whether a different item applies. The rules treat the front and back of a single sheet as separate pages. High-volume documents therefore incur scaled administrative charges.

• Caveat lodgment cost. Lodgment of a caveat is charged at 200 revenue units (Part 1, item 58), materially higher than many other standard land registry fees. Parties contemplating caveats should budget for that higher fee and consider the strategic cost-benefit trade-off.

• Multiple certificates and endorsement fees. Where multiple certificates as to title require endorsement, additional noting fees apply for each certificate after the first. Conveyancers transferring multiple titles must account for per-certificate charges and for the separate fee for issuing each certificate (see items 72 and 8 in the appropriate Part).

• Electronic conveyancing micro-fees. The Schedule contains small fees for ELNO-related services (Part 1 item 81). While small in absolute terms, these fees can apply multiple times during a transaction process and must be understood by ELNO subscribers.

• Ancillary service costs. Per-document remote access fees, in-office access charges, photocopy per-page fees, certified copy surcharges, and postage charges all add to transaction costs. Large portfolios or searches will see these ancillary fees multiply.

• Termination and large-lot fees. The Termination of Units Plans and Unit Title Schemes Act 2014 lodgment fee is substantial and scales with units: 1,000 revenue units plus 48 revenue units for each unit exceeding 10 (Part 4A item 1). Termination procedures therefore carry significant registry costs for large schemes.

• Amendments and commencement dates. The Schedule has been amended repeatedly. The endnotes list multiple amending instruments with varying commencement dates. Users working with historical transactions must consult the version of the Schedule in force at the relevant date rather than assuming current fees applied in past transactions.

• Missing penalty provisions. The Regulations do not set late fees or enforcement penalties. However, principal Acts may contain such mechanisms. Users should not assume absence of a penalty in the Regulations implies absence elsewhere.

Practitioners and clients should map each factual scenario to the correct Schedule line item, convert revenue units to dollars using the current conversion rate, and add levy and ancillary charges. Overlooked multiplicative components, page-count surcharges, or the caveat and termination high-fee items are the common practical pitfalls.

Complying with the Registration Regulations involves mapping the intended registry action to the precise Schedule 1 item, calculating the total fee (including levies and per-unit components), and lodging the correct form with the appropriate payment. Follow these practical steps rooted in the text.

1. Identify the triggering statutory provision. Each Schedule item links to a dealing under a named principal Act and often cites the specific Act section. Confirm which Act section creates the right or obligation you seek to exercise (for example, registering a transfer of a lot is linked to s 60 of the Land Title Act 2000; Schedule 1 Part 1 item 17). This ensures you pick the correct fee line.

2. Select the exact Schedule item. Read the descriptive text in Schedule 1 carefully. Many entries carry subtle distinctions that determine which fee applies (for example, Part 1AA item 1(a) vs 1(b) for registering an advance personal plan depending on whether a power of attorney is lodged and whether the donor is the represented adult).

3. Convert revenue units to dollars. Fees are mostly stated in revenue units. To calculate the payable dollar amount you must convert revenue units using the current monetary value of a revenue unit as set by the relevant financial instrument or Treasury schedule. The Regulations do not set that conversion, so check the Registrar-General’s payment instructions or Territory financial guidance before making payment.

4. Add levies and ancillary charges. For many items a dollar levy is separately listed. Add any levy shown in the "Levy" column. Also include ancillary charges such as photocopying per page, certified copy surcharges, remote access fees, postage by registered mail, and requisition fees where relevant (for example Schedule 1 Part 1 items 73-79).

5. Account for multiplicative or per-unit charges. Where the Schedule item shows an amount "plus" an additional fee per unit, certificate or affected unit, compute the aggregate: base fee plus the per-unit multiplier (for example scheme statement registration, unit plan lodgment tiers in Part 5, and termination lodgment in Part 4A). Confirm whether the item says "in addition to fee for each certificate as to title issued" and include that fee where relevant.

6. Prepare instruments in the appropriate form. The Schedule charges alternative fees where instruments are not in the appropriate form (Schedule 1 Part 1 items 69 and 70). Use the approved forms referenced in the relevant Act or Registrar-General’s forms guidance to avoid higher alternate charges or a requisition.

7. Consider Registrar-General initiative for corrections. If the matter is a correction to the land register, note the exception for Registrar-General corrections on their own initiative. If cost is a factor, consider whether it is feasible to request review or clarification from registry staff before lodging a charged application. Administrative practice will determine whether the Registrar-General will act without an applicant-driven fee.

8. Use the correct lodgment channel. Decide whether to use remote access, in-office equipment, staff-assisted access, or an ELNO interface. The Schedule sets different fees depending on the access mode (Schedule 1 Part 1 item 73) and specific low-value fees for ELNO interactions (item 81). Choose the most appropriate channel and include the corresponding access fee.

9. Pay and obtain receipt. Tender payment in the manner prescribed by the Land Titles Office or Registrar-General at the time of lodgment, and obtain a receipt. The Regulations operate as the authority to charge; evidence of payment is often required before a registration or search will proceed.

10. Keep contemporaneous records and check amendment history. Because Schedule 1 has been amended repeatedly (see endnotes), for transactions spanning time you must use the fee schedule that was in force at the time of lodgment. Retain copies of the Gazette notice or the particular subordinate legislation that set the fee at the relevant date.

11. Budget for high-cost items. If you represent developers, landlords, trustees or mortgagees, be aware of high-fee items like caveat lodgment (200 revenue units), termination lodgment (1,000 revenue units plus per-unit scaling), and per-unit charges for large schemes. Communicate these costs to clients upfront.

12. Seek clarification where the Schedule is silent. The Regulations do not spell out administrative timeframes, fee waiver policies, or enforcement mechanisms. Where practice may affect costs or timing, contact the Land Titles Office or the Registrar-General for procedural guidance.

These compliance steps align with the textual mechanics of r 3 and Schedule 1. They require combining accuracy in legal classification of the dealing, precise fee arithmetic (including revenue unit conversion), proper use of forms, selection of the correct access pathway, and retention of payment evidence. Following them reduces the risk of rejected lodgments, requisitions, or unbudgeted fees.