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Legal Profession Act 2006
379Transfer of mortgages to responsible entity
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379 Transfer of mortgages to responsible entity
(1) If a solicitor, in the solicitor’s capacity as solicitor for a lender or
contributor, is responsible for the administration of a regulated
mortgage, the solicitor must not transfer the mortgage to a responsible
entity for a managed investment scheme unless the lender or
contributor has given the solicitor written authority to transfer the
mortgage to the responsible entity.
(2) A contravention of this section can be professional misconduct.
scheme property—see the Corporations Act, section 9.
transfer a regulated mortgage to a responsible entity—a solicitor
transfers a regulated mortgage to a responsible entity if the solicitor
does anything that results in—
(a) a responsible entity for a managed investment scheme becoming
the holder or custodian of the regulated mortgage; or
(b) any money advanced in relation to the mortgage, or the property
that is charged or encumbered by the mortgage, becoming
scheme property of a managed investment scheme.