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AT A GLANCE:
To support the mandate of the LRA to preserve the integrity of the land registration process, protect the sanctity of the Torrens System, and act as the central repository records relative to the original registration of land titled under the Torrens System, including the subdivision and consolidation plans of titled lands and, through the Register of Deeds (RD) nationwide, be the repository of records of instrument affecting registered and unregistered land, on November 14, 2023, the Land Registration Authority (LRA) issued LRA Circular No. 14-2023, which provides for the outright confiscation of patently fake certificate of title.
The following procedure shall be strictly observed in the outright confiscation of patently fake certificates of title:
- Upon presentation of a patently fake certificate of title in the Registry of Deeds for a transaction or for purposes of verification, the same shall be outrightly confiscated by the Records Officer.
- The confiscated patently fake certificate of title shall be photocopied and in the presence of the presentor and a corresponding Acknowledgment Receipt signed by the Register of Deeds/Deputy Register of Deeds indicating therein that the subject patently fake certificate of title shall be investigated shall be issued to the presentor attaching the therewith the photocopy of the said patently fake or spurious certificate of title.
- The Records Officer within five (5) days from the outright confiscation of the subject patently fake certificate of title shall submit the same to the Inspection and Investigation Division for the proper investigation together with the summary of observation as regards the physical appearance of the patently fake certificate of title.
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