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CONVEYANCING ACT 1919 - SECT 133A
Provisions as to covenants to repair
133A Provisions as to covenants to repair
(1) Damages for a breach of a covenant or agreement to keep or put premises in
repair during the currency of a lease, or to leave or put premises in repair
at the termination of a lease, whether such covenant or agreement is expressed
or implied, and whether general or specific, shall in no case exceed the
amount (if any) by which the value of the reversion (whether immediate or not)
in the premises is diminished owing to the breach of such covenant or
agreement as aforesaid; and in particular no damage shall be recovered for a
breach of any such covenant or agreement to leave or put premises in repair at
the termination of a lease, if it is shown that the premises, in whatever
state of repair they might be, would at or shortly after the termination of
the lease have been or be pulled down, or such structural alterations made
therein as would render valueless the repairs covered by the covenant or
agreement.
(2) A right of re-entry or forfeiture for a breach of any such
covenant or agreement as aforesaid shall not be enforceable, by action or
otherwise, unless the lessor proves that the fact that such a notice as is
required by section 129 had been served on the lessee was known either-- (a)
to the lessee, or
(b) to an under-lessee holding under an under-lease which
reserved a nominal reversion only to the lessee, or
(c) to the person who
last paid the rent due under the lease either on the person's own behalf or as
agent for the lessee or under-lessee,
and that a time reasonably sufficient to
enable the repairs to be executed had elapsed since the time when the fact of
the service of the notice came to the knowledge of any such person.
Where a notice has been sent by post in a registered letter addressed to a
person at the person's last known place of abode in or out of New South Wales,
and that letter is not returned through the post office undelivered, then, for
the purposes of this subsection, that person shall be deemed, unless the
contrary is proved, to have had knowledge of the fact that the notice had been
served as from the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the
ordinary course of post.
This subsection shall be construed as one with section 129.
(3) This section
applies whether the lease was created before or after the commencement of the
Conveyancing (Amendment) Act 1930 .
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