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Conveyancing Act 1919

177ANo distress for rent

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177A No distress for rent

(1) Any common law right of a person to levy distress for rent is abolished.

(2) Nothing in this section affects any other right of a person to whom rent is due to recover the rent from the person liable to pay the rent.

s 177A: Ins 2002 No 53, Sch 1.3 [2].

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