Recent BCNA Education Event!
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ritish Columbia Notaries Association (BCNA) hosted a successful Virtual Continuing Education session April 16 and 17, 2021, with a variety of content and engaging presenters.
For the 2020–2021 Continuing Education reporting year, BCNA has provided opportunities for Notaries to earn up to 16 Continuing Education Credits. Hosted on Zoom, the April session started with an introduction from Daniel Boisvert, BCNA President. In an update from the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA), President and CEO AlKarim Kara provided an introduction to share his vision for the future and what LTSA Al-Karim Kara is doing to ensure BC’s land title and survey systems remain trusted and transparent. Daniel Boisvert
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Charlsy Dobell, Product Portfolio Manager, presented upcoming initiatives and developments at LTSA, including new functionality coming to Web Filing and myLTSA.
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He also provided an overview of the ID Verification service and an update on the launch of search capabilities for the Land Owner Transparency Registry that began April 30, 2021. Next up was D’Arcy Frankland, Notary Public in Campbell River, and Brent Taylor, BCLS, discussing LAND SURVEYING: D’Arcy A Comprehensive Frankland Review of the Working Relationship between a Notary and a British Columbia Land Surveyor. With D’Arcy having over 30 years as a Notary and Brent working as a Land Surveyor for over 35 years, a variety of topics were reviewed: • sketch plans, • building location certificates, • lot coverage calculations, • certificates of nonencroachment, • subdivision plans, • topographical plan, • explanatory plan and reference plans, • foreshore lease and licence areas, • boundary location, cancellation of interior lot lines, lot line adjustments, • site lines and building heights, BC Notaries Association
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• metes and bound descriptions, • board of variance applications, and • a sketch plan for well registration. Day 2 began with an introduction from Chad Rintoul, BCNA CEO. A general review of the Builders Lien Act Chad Rintoul was provided by Ron Usher, Staff Lawyer Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia (SNPBC) and Practice Advisory Line (PAL) Advisor, Ron Usher and Daniel Boisvert, Notary Public. This session encompassed what Notaries need to know about the Builders Lien Act and how it affects the Notaries and their clients. Our second session on Saturday morning, presented by Geoffrey White, LLB, BBA, from Clark Wilson in Kelowna, offered advice for Estate Geoffrey White Planning for Notaries’ High Net Worth & Complex Clients. The overview of this session included the following. • What happens when your client’s need is “beyond the basic Will?” Volume 30 Number 1 Spring 2021
