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STRATA TITLES ACT 1985 - SECT 52

52 .         Content and form of strata lease

        (1)         A strata lease —

            (a)         can only contain covenants or conditions allowed by the regulations; and

            (b)         if breach of a covenant or condition may lead to an order of the Tribunal for re-entry, the strata lease must identify the covenant or condition as a fundamental covenant or condition ; and

            (c)         cannot grant the owner of the leasehold scheme a right of re-entry of the lot for breach of a covenant or condition (express or implied); and

            (d)         must be in the approved form.

        (2)         The covenants or conditions allowed by the regulations cannot include covenants or conditions for the following —

            (a)         a matter that could be included in leasehold by-laws;

            (b)         refurbishment of the lot or improvements on the lot;

            (c)         a matter that is dealt with under this Act including —

                  (i)         financial contributions towards the maintenance, repair, renewal or replacement of common property in the leasehold scheme or property of the strata company; and

                  (ii)         the insurance required for the leasehold scheme;

            (d)         the acquisition of the owner of a leasehold scheme’s freehold reversion in the lot and the common property appurtenant to the lot;

            (e)         compensation for the value of improvements to the lot;

            (f)         any other matter specified in the regulations.

        (3)         If a strata lease cannot provide for, or relate to, something under this section, then it cannot be provided for in any other way, other than under scheme by-laws (if the thing may be the subject of scheme by-laws).

        Note for this subsection:

                For example, the thing cannot be made the subject of a lease, contract or deed.

        [Section 52 inserted: No. 30 of 2018 s. 83.]



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