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Property Law Act 1958
78Benefits of covenants relating to land
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78 Benefits of covenants relating to land
(1) A covenant relating to any land of the covenantee shall be deemed to be made with the covenantee and his successors in title and the persons deriving title under him or them, and shall have effect as if such successors and other persons were expressed.
For the purposes of this subsection in connexion with covenants restrictive of the user of land ***successors in title*** shall be deemed to include the owners and occupiers for the time being of the land of the covenantee intended to be benefited.
(2) This section shall apply to covenants made after the commencement of this Act but the repeal of section sixty-four of the **Conveyancing Act 1915** shall not affect the operation of covenants to which that section or any corresponding previous enactment applied.
No. 3754 s. 79.