Digital settlement
E-conveyancing and digital settlement in Queensland: what moved online, what did not, and what comes next.
Four doors, no counter: how a document reaches Queensland's land register
Since 7 September 2026 nothing is handed over in person at Titles Queensland. The four lodgement channels, who may use each, how each is paid for and what comes back.
Requisitions at Titles Queensland: when a lodged dealing is sent back
What a requisition notice is, how long a lodger has to answer, the $46.56 fee from 1 July 2026, and what rejection or withdrawal does to priority and to the fees already paid.
Cyber security duties of firms and lenders on a settlement network
What rule 7 of the national participation rules asks of every law practice and lender using a settlement network: training, certificates, access, and what to do when something is compromised.
Reserved, lodged, paid: how purchase money crosses between banks
What the Reserve Bank and the national rules say about the money side of an electronic settlement: netting between banks, reserved funds, the daily cut-offs and failed reservations.
Queensland without paper title deeds: what proves ownership now
Paper certificates of title lost their legal effect in Queensland on 1 October 2019. What the electronic register is, what an old deed is worth, and how an owner checks a title.
Paper or screen: the nine dealings Queensland lawyers must lodge online
Since 20 February 2023 nine common title instruments must be lodged electronically by professionals in Queensland. The list, the exemptions, the form that claims them and the history.
Workspace, subscriber, signer: an e-conveyancing glossary for Queensland
The working vocabulary of electronic settlement, term by term, taken from the national rule books and Titles Queensland, with a note on the words the rules leave undefined.
Signing a transfer without a pen: how digital signatures bind a firm
How a Queensland transfer is signed digitally: the certificate behind the signature, who in a firm may sign, what the signer certifies and when a signature can be disowned.
The client authorisation: the form that lets a lawyer sign for you
Buyers, sellers and some lenders sign a client authorisation so a subscriber can sign registry documents digitally. What the law says it is, its three types and how it ends.
Verification of identity: the check before a Queensland e-settlement
Why a buyer or seller is asked for a passport before an electronic settlement: the reasonable steps duty, the optional Standard, who may run the check and what is kept.