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Real Property Act 1900
55BDealings affecting common law leases
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#### 55B Dealings affecting common law leases
55B Dealings affecting common law leases
> > (1) Provisions of this Act that apply to and in respect of dealings affecting registered leases apply to and in respect of any dealings affecting a lease that is recorded as an encumbrance in a folio of the Register (a common law lease).
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> > (2) However, registration of a dealing affecting a common law lease does not—
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> > > (a) imply that the lease is registered, or
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> > > (b) otherwise alter the effect that lease would have had in the absence of this section.
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> > (3) The Registrar-General may reject or refuse to register a dealing lodged for registration that purports to affect a common law lease—
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> > > (a) if not satisfied as to the devolution of the lease, or
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> > > (b) if, for any other reason, of the opinion that the dealing would not have been registered if it had been a dealing lodged for registration that purported to affect a registered lease.
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> **s 55B:** Ins 2005 No 68, Sch 1 \[12\].