Reference: NOD Section 9.2.3
Once your business has subscribed to NECS and established users and certifiers, it can use NECS for online discharges, transfers, mortgages and withdrawals of caveats and other administrative transactions.
Before you (meaning a user, certifier or other employee or contractor for the Subscriber) commence a new transaction in NECS, you must verify your client’s identity and obtain their authority to represent them in the transaction and use NECS on their behalf.
- Verifying the client’s identity:
You verify the client’s identity by sighting originals of identity documents, checking their veracity, completing and signing prescribed form. This procedure is in keeping with other similar identity check processes such as those used by financial institutions. Arrangements will be made for remote, foreign and long-standing clients.
- Obtaining the client’s authority:
You and your client sign a Client Authorisation form which sets out your business' role and what you are authorized to do, for example, sign instruments and settlement instruction on their behalf and lodge instruments electronically for a given transaction.