Land Titles Plans Regulations
Regulation- Registration
- R-067-93
- Source
- Unofficial consolidation PDF (justice.gov.nt.ca) consolidation downloaded Jun 6, 2026
- Under
- Land Titles Act
This is an unofficial reading copy parsed from the Department of Justice consolidation PDF above — itself an office consolidation, not an official statement of the law. The authoritative text is in the Revised Statutes of the Northwest Territories, 1988 and the annual Statutes volumes.
- s.1 amended by R-058-2013,s.2 in force Oct. 1, 2013
- s.3 amended by R-030-2004,s.2
- s.4 amended by R-058-2013,s.3 in force Oct. 1, 2013
- s.5 amended by R-030-2004,s.3
- s.6 amended by R-058-2013,s.4 in force Oct. 1, 2013
- s.7 amended by R-030-2004,s.4
- s.7 amended by R-058-2013,s.5 in force Oct. 1, 2013
- s.8 amended by R-030-2004,s.5
- s.9 amended by R-030-2004,s.6(a)
- s.10 amended by R-030-2004,s.6(b)
- s.12.1 amended by R-030-2004,s.7
- s.13 amended by R-030-2004,s.8
- s.15 amended by R-030-2004, s.9
- s.16 repealed by R-030-2004,s.10
- s.sched_1 repealed by R-030-2004,s.11
- None.
The Commissioner, on the recommendation of the Minister, under section 195 of the Land Titles Act and every enabling power, makes the Land Titles Plans Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
In these regulations,
"Act" means the Land Titles Act; (Loi)
"explanatory plan" means a plan commonly known as an "explanatory plan" or other administrative plan prepared under the Canada Lands Surveys Act; (plan explicatif)
"subdivision authority" means the applicable subdivision authority as defined in subsection 1(1) of the Community Planning and Development Act. (autorité de lotissement) R-058-2013,s.2.
SKETCH AND PLAN APPROVAL
Sections 3 to 6 do not apply to a descriptive plan referred to in section 97 of the Act.
(1) Before a Canada Lands Surveyor
(a) conducts a survey on which a plan that is to be registered is to be based, in whole or in part, or
(b) makes a plan other than a plan referred to in paragraph (a) that is to be registered,
the Canada Lands Surveyor must, subject to subsection 4(2), submit a sketch of the proposed plan to the Surveyor General.
(2) The Surveyor General may give instructions to the Canada Lands Surveyor who submitted the sketch under subsection (1) for the preparation of the proposed plan, including the identification, by number or letter or both, of the lots and other parcels that are to be created by the plan. R-030-2004,s.2.
(1) This section applies to the submission of a sketch under subsection 3(1) for a proposed plan that, on completion and before submission for registration, requires the approval, under subparagraph 90(1)(b)(ii) or paragraph 95(a) of the Act, of a subdivision authority.
(2) Before a sketch of a proposed plan referred to in subsection (1) is submitted to the Surveyor General, the sketch must be submitted to and approved by a subdivision authority. R-058-2013,s.3.
(1) After a plan has been completed and the plan has been signed by any owner or encumbrancee required to sign the plan under the Act, the Canada Lands Surveyor who made the plan must, subject to section 6, submit the plan to the Surveyor General for approval before the plan is registered.
(2) The Surveyor General may approve a plan received under subsection (1) and endorse the plan to indicate his or her approval in the manner required in paragraph 7(e) if the Surveyor General is satisfied that the plan complies with any instructions that the Surveyor General has given under subsection 3(2). R-030-2004,s.3.
After a plan is endorsed with the approval of the Surveyor General under subsection 5(2), the plan must, if the plan is one referred to in subsection 4(1), be submitted for approval to a subdivision authority before the plan is submitted for registration. R-058-2013,s.4.
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
General Requirements
A plan that is to be registered by a Registrar, including a plan that is in whole or in part a descriptive plan,
(a) must be made on a medium satisfactory to the Registrar;
(b) must be made and signed in indelible black ink, or where the plan is made on plastic material, in indelible black adhesion type ink;
(c) must not be coloured;
(d) must be rectangular and the lesser of its two dimensions must not exceed 85 cm;
(e) must, if the plan is not a plan referred to in section 97 of the Act, be endorsed with a statement, signed by the Surveyor General, indicating that the Surveyor General is satisfied that the plan complies with any instructions that the Surveyor General has given under subsection 3(2);
(f) must, if the plan is required by section 6 to be submitted to a subdivision authority, be endorsed with a statement, signed by the subdivision authority, indicating that the plan is approved;
(g) subject to paragraph 15(b), must be certified in the manner required by section 37 of the Canada Lands Surveyors Regulations established by instrument numbered SOR/99-142; and
(h) must be accompanied by the electronic drawing file or files for the plan, prepared in accordance with any requirements of the Surveyor General and submitted on a medium satisfactory to the Registrar.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a plan that is to be registered must show the position of
(a) the boundary of any lot or other parcel shown on the most recently filed or registered plan of survey for the land dealt with by the plan that is to be registered that is within the boundaries of, or that is adjacent to or shares a point of intersection with a boundary of, a lot or other parcel created by the plan that is to be registered; and
(b) the boundary of any lot or other parcel
(i) that is shown on an explanatory plan or a descriptive plan
(A) registered against the certificate of title for the land dealt with by the plan that is to be registered,
(B) registered against the certificate of title for the land adjacent to the land dealt with by the plan that is to be registered, and
(C) filed with the Registrar for the land adjacent to the land dealt with by the plan that is to be registered, where a certificate of title has not been issued for the adjacent land, and
(ii) that is within the boundaries of, or adjacent to or shares a point of intersection with a boundary of a lot or other parcel created by the plan that is to be registered.
(2) Where a boundary of a lot or other parcel shown on a filed or registered plan shares a point of intersection with a boundary of a lot or other parcel created by a plan that is to be registered, the portion of the boundary of the lot or other parcel shown on the filed or registered plan that is not within the lot or parcel created by the plan that is to be registered must only be shown to the extent necessary to indicate its bearing or direction. R-030-2004,s.5.
Plans of Survey
(1) Subject to subsection (2), where all or a portion of a plan of survey submitted for registration is based on a new survey, the monuments shown on the plan of survey must be in place at the time the new survey is completed.
(2) Where, by instructions given under subsection 3(2), the Surveyor General permits the subdivision of a lot or other parcel in a new survey to be evidenced, in part, by monuments placed within one year of the date of the survey, a Registrar may, before that date, register a plan of survey based on the survey if
(a) the plan identifies those monuments which are not in place at the time the plan is submitted for registration; and
(b) the Registrar is satisfied, by such evidence that the Registrar may require,
(i) that the Canada Lands Surveyor who conducted the survey and made the plan has given an undertaking to the Surveyor General to put the missing monuments in place within a year of the completion of the survey, and
(ii) that adequate measures have been taken to ensure that the monuments will be put in place in the event the undertaking is not honoured.
A lot or other parcel created by a plan of survey submitted for registration must be based on a new survey unless the Surveyor General, by instructions given under subsection 3(2), permits the lot or other parcel to be compiled in whole or in part from filed or registered plans of survey. R-030-2004,s.6(b).
(1) Subject to subsection (2) and except where a Registrar permits otherwise, a plan of survey submitted for registration under section 88 of the Act that subdivides or consolidates lots or other parcels created by one or more filed or registered plans of survey must include the whole of the lots or other parcels that it subdivides or consolidates.
(2) A plan of survey referred to in subsection (1) need not include the whole of the lots or other parcels that it subdivides or consolidates if the plan of survey is based entirely on a new survey and is submitted for registration together with another plan of survey that compiles the remainder of the lots or other parcels that are subdivided or consolidated.
Where all or a portion of a plan of survey submitted for registration is based on a new survey, the plan of survey must be endorsed with the commencement and completion dates of the new survey.
A Registrar may, for the purposes of paragraph 92.3(2)(a) of the Act, accept evidence in the form of a sworn statement that is made by the Canada Lands Surveyor who made the plan, or under whose direct supervision the plan was made, and that is endorsed on or submitted with the plan of survey. R-030-2004,s.7.
Descriptive Plans
A descriptive plan that is to be registered must contain a complete and unambiguous definition of all boundaries of each lot or other parcel created by the plan, including the information necessary to enable the mathematical correlation of all boundaries shown on the plan. R-030-2004,s.8.
A descriptive plan referred to in section 97 of the Act that is submitted for registration must not contain identification numbers for any lots or other parcels created by the plan.
Transitional
A plan that is to be registered need not
(a) be endorsed with the approval of the Surveyor General in the manner required by paragraph 7(e), if the plan was signed by the Surveyor General before July 19, 1993; or
(b) be certified in the manner required by paragraph 7(g), if
(i) the plan was endorsed with a certificate in the form required by paragraph 7(g) as it read immediately before March 21, 2004, or
(ii) the accuracy of the plan was verified under the Land Titles Act (Canada) before July 19, 1993.
Repealed, R-030-2004,s.10.
SCHEDULE
Repealed, R-030-2004,s.11.
ANNEXE
Abrogée, R-030-2004,
Territorial Printer, Northwest Territories Yellowknife, N.W.T./2013©