In order for title to be certain, there needs to be a registration system in place
which means that cannot be an overlapping of interests in land. In other words, it is
important to ensure that there is only one "owner" of land, or titleholder, at any one
time.
The reason why I don't think that land title in Tasmania is certain is because there is
no effective system by which title can be obtained. There is no system design. Since
1991 computerized software design tools have been available in order to graphically describe any
registration system so that anyone can see that an effective registration system exists and that that
system can be described in a way which anyone can understand.
If there is no registration system design then there is no effective registration. This is the difference between an effective
set of filing cabinets holding data and a room into which clerical workers throw files of information in any old order. One is a system, the
other isn't. Of course the most important aspect in any filing system - is how the information is indexed.
The other way you can tell that the land registration system in Tasmania is dysfunctional is by the sheer weight of anomolies in the system itself.
Some of these anomolies will be shown below but the primary way that you can establish that the LTO system is dysfunctional is to ask to see the system
design. There is a system design (incomplete) for the remainder of the land identification system but this does not extend to land titling or the registration of
the change of ownership of land in this state.
