Guide to Preparing the Survey Plan Certification and Application to Deposit Plan in SurveyHub

Enter the PID and add to list. The system will enter the associated legal description.

If you have an application with no PID and there is a related plan number, the system will retrieve the PIDs in the related plan application and link them to the application with no PID. This results in the application with no PID appearing as a pending document against all registered titles associated with the related plan number.

In limited circumstances, neither a PID number or related plan number is required if the application is a plan over an unregistered parcel and it is submitted in the same package as a Form 17 Fee Simple with one of the following natures of interest:

When entering a plan number, you must enter a legal description. The e-filing system will reject your application if no legal description is entered. The following legal description abbreviations are acceptable:

For plan types that create new lots, enter the number of lots created. The system will generate the “new lots field” based on the plan type.

You may be working with another myLTSA customer on this application and the owner information is to be completed by another party after the application is emailed. You can leave the Owner Information section inactive in those cases.

10 If you Paste from Title Search, the system will complete the data entry in the Owner Information fields. You can view, edit, and remove the pasted title information as needed.

The Paste From Title Search has some format limitations. The dialog provides instructions on how to set out the name, occupation and address and if there is any error in the format, the system will prevent the data entry until the issue is resolved.

Optionally, you can enter the owner information manually.

For individual or corporate owners, identify the tenancy and if applicable choose a capacity.

For individuals, enter the given name(s), last name, occupation and address.

For corporations, enter the name of the corporation, its British Columbia incorporation number or registration number if any and the address.

When you complete the Owner Information fields, the system will generate the associated Owner/Charge Owner Signature Block applicable to the plan type.

When owners are taking ownership as unequal fractional interests, you must set out the owners respective interests. The interest must total 1.

You may be working with another myLTSA customer on this application and some or all of the signature information is to be completed by another party after the application is emailed. You can leave the Signatures section inactive in those cases.

If using the Add from Plan Statements, the system will read the plan statements that appear on the plan and generate a list of associated signature blocks for you to select and add to the DSPL.

Select the applicable signatures and approvals and choose the appropriate option from the dropdown list. After you make a selection, the system will generate fillable fields to be completed at the time of execution and ‘trued up’ before electronic signing.

The fillable signature fields can be modified in cases where more detail about the signature, witness or nature of the approval is required. For example, an approving officer’s approval under Land Title Act section 88 may be modified to include conditions of approval under the Local Government Act section 514(9).

You may wish to include additional information relevant to the application, e.g., you’d like to note there is an email attached to the application from the Registrar approving the use of an explanatory plan

Complete the BC Land Surveyor Information including commission number, company (optional) and address. The commission number will appear prepopulated from the Survey Plan Information section but it can be changed in the dropdown menu. Optionally, you can save or load a template.

Select the applicable certification statements. The statements that appear are determined by the type of plan.

When you enter the ECR # and ECR Filed Date, the system will enter the text in the Survey Plan Certification field. You cannot certify the survey and plan until the ECR fields are complete.

You must certify the plan is correct and that you were present and personally superintended the survey. The SPC form section 3 will automatically update when the certification is complete. You can download the form on this page.

A land surveyor must e-sign the form before it can be submitted. The electronic signature certifies that the BC land surveyor is a subscriber under the Land Title Act and that when they electronically sign the SPC form they are also signing the attached plan.

When a land surveyor e-signs the SPC form, the system generates the version number, control number and populates the DSPL with the plan number and control number.

You may autofill this section from a template, create a template to autofill or manually enter the name, address, phone number and (optional) more information of the applicant.

After completing the data entry sections, see a preview of the SurveyHub form. You can review, validate, download and e-sign on this page.

Once the documents are ready for submission, click Turn On Submission to start the process of preparing to submit the plan, plan application and dataset to EFS. When you Turn On Submission, you activate the version and control number to be accepted by EFS.

You must Turn On Submission for the correct version of the plan. EFS will provide a warning to the user if the plan and plan application is not turned on for the version submitted to EFS.

If you are the applicant submitting the plan and plan application, , you can download the e-signed SPC and DSPL and upload them to EFS.

If you are working with another party and intend to email the documents, enter the email address for the recipient and click Send PDF files. The system will generate an email and attach the prepared PDF documents to the email.

The receiving party will receive an email with the attached forms where they can download, save and prepare the fillable DSPL for submission and upload to EFS.