TECHNICAL NEWS COMMUNITY SIGNING SITES For those participating in the JPs in the Community Program at signing sites across the State you will have received guidelines from the Department of Justice and Attorney-General (DJAG) about dealing with clients who refuse to wear masks in contravention to directives issues by Queensland Health. These guidelines can be found at JPs in the Community Update Aug 21 These guidelines also remind JPs and Cdecs that volunteers can decline to witness documents for people who do not have a lawful reason for not wearing a mask. tionrmaIf tabou xceptions omfr wearing acef smak are tedlis on ‘Quenslad cthHoryMF irectonsDMak
Clarification Your QJA membership number (issued to you by QJA and used to identify you within QJA’s internal systems) is to be used only when communicating with QJA. Your JP/CDec registration number (issued to you by the Queensland Government’s JP Branch) is the only number to be placed in your official seal of office or on any document you certify, witness or authorize in your JP/CDec role. Not sure? If you are uncertain about what number you have been using, please contact our office (phone (07) 3392 2455 or email admin@qja.com.au) and we’ll sort it out for you.
TITLES OFFICE CHANGES Elizabeth Dann, Registrar of Titles and Registrar of Water Allocations, has issued the following statements about changes to the Queensland Land Titles Registry Office. The Queensland Government announced, the State’s titles registry is being transferred to the Queensland Future Fund. This transfer will be effective as of 19 June 2021.
WHICH NUMBER ARE YOU USING? Problem A recent communication received from the Registrar, Justice of the Peace Branch, Department of Justice and Attorney General, indicated that their office has detected some QJA members are incorrectly inserting their QJA membership number in their seal of office when performing JP/CDec duties.
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While there will be some minor changes associated with this transfer, it remains business as usual for all functions of the titles registry. What will change: • A new name – Queensland’s titles registry will soon be known as ‘Titles Queensland’.
• Email addresses – an email redirect will be put
in place, but please update your address books. After the transfer, our new general enquiries email will be ‘info@titlesqld.com.au’.
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