SUBJECT: Surrender of old Manual Titles for upgrading to Electronic Title
DATE: June 24, 2019
FROM: Administrator
Land Registration Authority
When the Land Registration Authority (LRA) embarked into computerization through the Land Titling Computerization Project (LTCP), around 16.6 Million titles of the 159 registries nationwide were scanned and uploaded in the database. However, the scanned image in the system is not the title itself but is only the picture thereof. The title remains the paper title kept in the vault of the registry office.
The aforementioned scanning of title, including the encoding of the entries thereof, serves as a preparatory process before the upgrading of the title to Electronic Title, the nature of which would be discussed herein later.
When there is a transaction involving the title, be it sale, mortgage, or any transaction that requires annotation, pursuant to Sections 54 and 57 of PD 1529, the Office of the Register of Deeds through its Records Officer is required to find the title to ascertain that it still exists because when it cannot be found, the office has to recommend the filing in court of a petition for the reconstitution of the lost title before any transaction can be had thereon.
No office on Monday and Tuesday, November 19 & 20, 2018 at the Registry of Deeds - Manila.
Office resumes on November 21 at 2nd Floor Room 222, Manila City Hall.
Registry of Deeds Transfer to temporary office is POSTPONED.
Call or text:
0916-284-9408
0999-797-6545
(02) 567-4871
MARISSA E. TIMONES
Registrar of Deeds
City of Manila
