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Electronic Conveyancing (EC) is a world-first online settlement and lodgment system developed in collaboration with the conveyancing industry. EC eliminates the need for paper-based settlements, drawing cheque and meeting to exchange documents on settlement day. In the EC system, vendors and purchasers engage registered Subscribers to act on their behalf. The Subscriber uses the online EC system on behalf of their clients to settle land transactions - including the payment of duty to the relevant state tax or revenue office - and lodge documents electronically from their personal computers.
Benefits of using EC
Buyers and sellers of property can reduce the cost of their transaction by using EC. The various benefits of EC are:
EC is designed to be as safe as the existing paper-based conveyancing and lodgment system, which will continue to operate alongside Electronic Conveyancing for those who wish to continue to transact in paper.
EC Subscribers
For a property transaction to
be processed through the EC system, all parties must be EC Subscribers. These
parties are typically an incoming mortgagee, an outgoing mortgagee (both
financial institutions), and the vendor’s and purchaser’s representatives
(solicitors or conveyances). The vendor and purchaser do not subscribe to EC,
but engage the services of an EC Subscriber. Subscribers will require consent
from their clients in the form of a signed Representation Agreement to process
a transaction through the EC system.
Who can subscribe?
What does EC provide to Subscribers?
Instruments that can be processed using EC
The EC system allows electronic financial property settlement and the lodgment of land transfers, mortgages and discharges of mortgage and withdrawal of caveats (not stand alone) into Land Victoria and the electronic payment of duty to the relevant state tax or revenue office.
You will need an active Internet connection to access Electronic Conveyancing (EC). The browsers and operating systems compatible with EC are outlined below.
Windows XP - SP2
Windows Vista
Note: Your browser must be set to accept
Cookies which are necessary for digital signing and EC login. This option can
usually be located in the Privacy tab of the Tools - Internet Options menu
within your browser.
Locally installed software
The following software needs to be installed onto your PC in order to use the EC system.
Digital Signing Certificate
Common Signing Interface
What is e-Lodge?
Electronic Conveyancing (EC) provides the facility to process and electronically lodge conveyancing documents including:
All Instruments, Registrar's Instructions and Administrative Notices are digitally signed by Subscribers before being validated and submitted to LV. After validation and when lodged with LV, the Instruments, Registrar's Instructions and Administrative Notices follow the normal Registration process.
What is e-Settle?
Settlement, as provided by the EC system, is a seamless and continuous process which allows for:
The role of the Electronic Lodgment File (ELF) in EC
EC uses the ELF as a means of collecting, controlling and remitting all the required lodgment and settlement data.
After financial settlement
Following successful financial settlement, ASX will send details of individual financial line items to the relevant financial institutions to debit/credit their customer’s bank accounts and advise EC of the successful financial settlement.
EC will notify participating Subscribers of the successful financial SETTLEMENT submit the Registrar’s Instruments and Instructions to LV for lodgment and submit duty and land tax data to the relevant state tax or revenue office. EC will then notify participating Subscribers that the ELF has been successfully processed
Confidentiality and Conveyancing
Conveyancing depends
upon a substantial degree of mutual co-operation. Attorneys have to maintain
their confidentiality with lenders and clients .with lenders; it is clearly our
duty to report to a lender any circumstance about the transaction which might
affect their decision to lend. It is not possible to list completely the
circumstances in which such disclosure might be required, but often it would be
some arrangement between the vendor, and the purchaser which affects the
purchase price. If the circumstance will not affect the lender's decision, then
no harm is done by the disclosure. If we conclude that the lender's decision
might be affected by the circumstance, then we would have a duty to inform the
lender. Very occasionally a conflict will arise between the lay client and the
lender where other rules will apply.
In the general run of conveyancing, it is common also for us to be asked, and to ask on your behalf, about matters such as the progress of mortgage applications, and other circumstances which will affect a conveyance. The very process of conveyancing involves the asking, and answering, of many questions between solicitors about the properties, and the clients. It is a process of enquiry and disclosure.
There are no hard and fast guide-lines as to what can be disclosed. We hope that our decisions will be made with common sense, starting from the prime requirement of confidentiality. In particular, if anything sensitive might need to be disclosed, we will make sure that you know of the disclosure, and in most circumstances we will ask for your specific consent first before making the disclosure.
This is important. We are happy to discuss it with you at any time. We will assume that we have your authority to disclose non-sensitive material to someone else, within the transaction and who has a proper interest. We ask you to be sure to let us know immediately if you wish, as you are quite free to do, to restrict this discretion.
Please note now also that we must operate within the Money Laundering laws. These can require us to report to the police any transaction which we consider to be suspicious. To be fair, if we had the faintest idea that a client might be asking us to do such a thing we would not be involved to begin with.
Property/Conveyancing
In the highly competitive conveyancing and property law markets, WNS currently
provides to multiple clients a wide range services, including those shown below
for both Freehold and Leasehold properties:
Re-mortgage/Re-finance Legal Processes:
· Categorize, index and set up new instructions
· Obtain Office Copy Entries and capture details
· Send letter and questionnaire to clients
· Obtain redemption statement and deeds from existing lender
· Prepare occupiers waiver
· Chase documents and update system/screens
· Carry out searches
· Do OS1 and K16
· Send COT, new building insurance details and ID
· Prepare completion statements, invoices and TTS
· 1 to 2 Transfers of Equity
· Deeds of postponement
Property Sale Processes:
40% of the overall process can be outsourced
Property Purchase Processes:
65% of the overall process can be outsourced
Onshore operations remain post room & scanning, client communication and finance/client account.
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