Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

LAND TITLES ACT 1925 - SECT 96

The mortgagee or encumbrancee upon default in payment of the principal sum or any part thereof, or of any interest, annuity or rent charge secured by any mortgage or encumbrance may—

        (a)     enter into possession of the mortgaged or encumbered land by receiving the rents and profits therefor; or

        (c)     bring an action to recover the land, either before or after commencing to take the rents and profits, and either before or after any sale of the land effected under the power of sale given or implied in his or her memorandum of mortgage or of encumbrance;

in the same manner in which he or she might have made the entry or brought the action if the principal sum or annuity were secured to him or her by a conveyance of the legal estate in the land so mortgaged or encumbered.