The Register of Deeds is maintained by Land Titles in the Office of Regulatory Services. 

A Power of Attorney is registered under the Registration of Deeds Act 1957 but must comply with the provisions of the Powers of Attorney Act 2006.  Further information concerning Powers of Attorney may be found on the Public Trustee for the A.C.T. website.

Deeds are registered under the Registration of Deeds Act 1957 and must be lodged in duplicate (or one original and a copy verified as a true copy by a statutory declaration) with the approved form.  There is a prescribed fee for lodgement of a deed.

Deeds are lodged at the Land Titles counter by producing the deed to the registrar-general and depositing with the registrar-general a copy of the deed verified as a true copy by the statutory declaration of a person who has compared the copy with the original deed of which it purports.  The statutory declaration forms part of the lodgement form.

All deeds should be deposited on A4 paper.  A deed will not be accepted for lodgement if the document is not legible.

A deed includes any instrument or document, whether under seal or not, other than—

• a will;
• an instrument (not being a lease, or a sublease, for a term of years not exceeding 3 years) that is in accordance with the provisions of the Land Titles Act 1925 and purports to transfer or otherwise deal with or affect an estate or interest in land under the provisions of that Act; or,
• a document that evidences, or purports to evidence, a change of the name of a person.

The application forms and relevant fees to register, to search for or to copy a deed can be found in the forms and fees link found to the right of this page.