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Hello Sarah,   Thank you for raising this.  We are currently working with some selected Councils and Water Authorities to take it a step further and determine how we could provide them with the Notice of Acquisition directly from PEXA.  This would include ensuring  the full detail of the Notice of Acquisition is disbursed to them.    Kind regards   Cheryl  ... View more

Hi  DMc   Thanks for letting us know.........and for the workaround. I will see if we can have a look at that.   Cheers Aaron ... View more

These are very good questions @mm,   @Vincent as a conveyancer who's had a bit of exposure to eCTs do you have any words of wisdom? ... View more

Hi @Ames & @Naomi The WA Joint Form of General Conditions (2011) remains to be updated to properly incorporate e-settlement. Thankfully Australian Institute Conveyancers WA (AICWA) had the foresight to engage legal input to provide WA practitioners a thorough e-settlement variation.  There is also an Annexure released via Real Estate Institute WA (REIWA) for their members on drawing up the contract, but since it is a separate form it is rarely used/remembered.  But while most AICWA members are aware of and understand the AICWA variation along with the REIWA annexure, There are some practitioners that DON'T seem to appreciate the contractual nuances of e-settlement vs manual/paper, nor some the OP mentioned implications of the change of settlement between the two.  ... View more

A completely digital conveyancing space is going to mean that things that change will effect other things that we did not know or anticipate they were going to effect. It will be kinda like eating ice cream for the first time and not realising when you take a bite first of all how nice it  tastes but secondly that your two front teeth are going to hurt. Then after a time you work out ways to eat ice cream so that you protect those front teeth.   I work at home on a lap top and have very little physical interaction with anyone apart from phone calls. Emails are not physical interactions. I sometimes go out to the bakery just so that I can have a physical person to talk to and then go back home again.  One thing that does concern me is that when people sign important legal documents they would have in the really old days a grey haired fellow across the desk from them who had been around and seen some disasters. Wise sage advice followed hopefully before people entered important transactions. Digital signing removes this . ... View more