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All documents required to be lodged with the Registrar must be lodged or filed through a trust company.[1] Similarly, every application for any extract or copy of any certificate or any documents lodged with the Registrar must be made through a trust company. However a member may apply for a certificate, document or extract if they are for his own personal use. In practice, this is rare if allowed at all.

As a measure to enhance LOFSA’s delivery process, the OCA 1990 was amended to enable the Registrar to provide electronic lodgement or filing of documents, called the EDSP.[2] All trust companies are required to be subscribers of the EDSP. The EDSP is open only to trust companies. A document is deemed to have satisfied the requirement for lodgement or filing of document if it is transmitted to the Registrar through the EDSP.

A copy or extract of any document electronically filed or lodged through the EDSP and duly certified by the Registrar as a true copy or extract from that document shall be admissible as evidence in any proceedings with equal validity as the original document.[3]

The original copies of the documents filed or lodged electronically through the EDSP shall be kept at the office of the trust company at all times.