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Land Titles Act 1925
121Abbreviated forms of words for covenants in leases
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121 Abbreviated forms of words for covenants in leases
Such of the covenants set forth in this section as are expressed in any
memorandum of lease as to be implied shall, if expressed in the form
of words in this section appointed and prescribed for the case of each
such covenant respectively, be so implied as fully and effectually as
if those covenants were set forth fully and in words at length in the
instrument:
(a) the words ‘will insure’ shall imply as follows: will insure, and,
so long as the term expressed in the lease has not expired, will
keep insured, in the name of the lessor, in some public insurance
office, to be approved by the lessor, against loss or damage by
fire, to the full amounts specified in the lease, or, if no amount
be specified, then to their full value, all buildings, tenements or
premises erected on the land which are of a nature or kind
capable of being insured against loss or damage by fire, and that
the lessee will at the request of the lessor hand over to and
deposit with him or her the policy of every such insurance and
produce to him or her the receipt and receipts for the annual or
other premiums payable on account thereof, and also that all
moneys to be received under or by virtue of any such insurance
shall in the event of loss or damage by fire be laid out and
expended in making good the loss or damage:
Provided that if default is made in the observance or
performance of the covenant last abovementioned, the lessor
may without prejudice to and concurrently with the powers
granted him or her by his or her memorandum of lease or by this
Act provided, insure the building; and the costs and charges of
the insurance shall, until the lease expires, be a charge upon the
land recoverable in like manner as rent in arrear;
(b) the words ‘will paint outside every alternate year’ shall imply as
follows: will in every alternate year during the currency of the
lease, paint all the outside woodwork and ironwork belonging to
the hereditaments and premises mentioned in the lease with
2 coats of proper oil colours in a workmanlike manner;
(c) the words ‘will paint and paper inside every third year’ shall
imply as follows: will in every third year during the currency of
the lease paint the inside, wood, iron and other works, now or
usually painted with 2 coats of proper oil colours in a
workmanlike manner, and also repaper with paper of a quality
as at present such parts of the premises as are now papered, and
also wash, stop, whiten or colour such parts of the premises as
are now washed, stopped, whitened or coloured respectively;
(d) the words ‘will fence’ shall imply as follows: will, during the
continuance of the lease, erect and put up on the boundaries of
the land therein mentioned, or upon such boundaries upon which
no substantial fence now exists, a good and substantial fence;
(e) the words ‘will cultivate’ shall imply as follows: will, at all times
during the lease, cultivate, use and manage all such parts of the
land therein mentioned as are or shall be broken up or converted
into tillage in a proper and husbandmanlike manner, and will not
impoverish or waste the land;
(f) the words ‘that the lessee will not use the premises as a shop’
shall imply as follows: that the lessee will not convert, use or
occupy the hereditaments and premises mentioned in the lease
or any part thereof into or as a shop, warehouse or other place
for carrying on any trade or business whatsoever, or permit or
suffer the hereditaments and premises or any part thereof to be
used for any such purpose or otherwise than as a private
dwelling house without the consent in writing of the lessor;
(g) the words ‘that he or she will not carry on offensive trades’ shall
imply as follows: that no noxious noisome or offensive art,
trade, business, occupation or calling shall, at any time during
the term of the lease, be used, exercised, carried on, permitted
or suffered in or upon the hereditaments and premises
abovementioned, and that no act, matter or thing whatsoever
shall, at any time during the term of the lease, be done in or upon
the hereditaments and premises or any part thereof which shall
or may be or grow to the annoyance, nuisance, grievance,
damage or disturbance of the occupiers or owners of the
adjoining lands and hereditaments;
(h) the words ‘will not without leave assign or sublet’ shall imply
as follows: will not, during the term of the lease, assign, transfer,
demise, sublet or set over, or otherwise by any act or deed
procure the lands or premises therein mentioned or any of them
or any part thereof to be assigned, transferred, demised, sublet
or set over unto any person whomsoever without the consent in
writing of the lessor first had and obtained;
(i) the words ‘will not cut timber’ shall imply as follows: will not
cut down, fell, injure or destroy any growing or living timber or
timberlike trees standing and being upon the hereditaments and
premises abovementioned without the consent in writing of the
lessor.