Sale of Titles Office

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Environment and Planning Committee’s Inquiry into the proposed long term lease of the land titles and registry functions of Land Use Victoria.
The Committee has resolved to extend the closing date for submission to Friday 6 July 2018.

This is a notice about a very important attempt to privatise a fundamental public institution and resource. Inside we have published a press release from the Environment and Planning Committee about the parameters of the inquiry, plus the extension of submissions dates.

PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA

Environment and Planning Committee

MEDIA RELEASE
Extension of time for submissions to land titles inquiry
The Environment and Planning Committee is conducting an inquiry into the proposed long term lease of the land titles and registry functions of Land Use Victoria.

The Committee has agreed to a two week extension of time for public submissions to the inquiry. Submissions can be made until Friday 6 July.

Terms of Reference

Under the inquiry's terms of reference, the Committee is considering:

- implications for the ongoing integrity of the land use system in Victoria

- risks to privacy and security of sensitive data held by Land Use Victoria

- likely consequences for the cost and service levels of the titles and registry functions being commercialised

- implications for the people employed at the Land Titles Office undertaking the work the government seeks to privatise

- proposed financial arrangements of the sale and cost and benefit of those arrangements to Victoria in the long term

- other Australian and international experiences of privatising similar services.

For more information on the inquiry, including on how to make a submission, visit the Committee’s
website: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/epc/article/4053.
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Issued: 22 June
2018