144. The introduction, in a registration division, of a land register consisting of land books made up of land files, in accordance with article 2972 of the new Code, is made public by publication by the Minister of Justice, in the Gazette officielle du Québec, of a notice indicating that the land register, within the meaning of the new Code, is fully operational, from the date it indicates, for the publication of rights concerning the immovables or the territory designated in the notice. A notice of the publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec is given in a daily or weekly newspaper distributed in the registration division concerned.
The notice published in the Gazette officielle du Québec contains the description of the territory of the registration division in which the new land book has been introduced and indicates the location of the registry office; it may also make reference to the regulation describing the territories of the registration divisions which will have the new land register.