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Building Units and Group Titles Act 1980
sec.20Ownership of common property
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### sec.20 Ownership of common property
The common property shall be held by the proprietors as tenants in common in shares proportional to the lot entitlements of their respective lots.
The registrar of titles in issuing a certificate of title for a lot shall certify therein that the proprietor holds the share in the common property appurtenant thereto in accordance with the lot entitlement of that lot as set forth in the plan.
Save as in this Act provided, no share in the common property shall be disposed of except as appurtenant to the lot of the proprietor and any assurance of a lot shall operate to assure the share of the disposing party in the common property without express reference thereto.
(sec.20-ssec.1) The common property shall be held by the proprietors as tenants in common in shares proportional to the lot entitlements of their respective lots.
(sec.20-ssec.2) The registrar of titles in issuing a certificate of title for a lot shall certify therein that the proprietor holds the share in the common property appurtenant thereto in accordance with the lot entitlement of that lot as set forth in the plan.
(sec.20-ssec.3) Save as in this Act provided, no share in the common property shall be disposed of except as appurtenant to the lot of the proprietor and any assurance of a lot shall operate to assure the share of the disposing party in the common property without express reference thereto.