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Unit Titles Act 2001
163Cancellation of units plan—new lease over parcel
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163 Cancellation of units plan—new lease over parcel
(1) The new lease arising under section 162 (e)—
(a) is held by—
(i) the owners of the units immediately before registration of
the authority as tenants in common in shares proportional
to their former unit entitlement; or
(ii) if there was a single owner of all the units immediately
before the registration of the authority—by the owner; and
(b) expires on the day each of the leases of the units, and the lease
of the common property, would have expired if it were not for
the cancellation of the units plan; and
(c) is otherwise governed by the provisions to which the lease of the
parcel was subject immediately before the registration of the
units plan, subject to any declaration of the territory planning
authority under section 160 (6) (Cancellation authority—grant
by territory planning authority) or any declaration of the
Supreme Court under section 161A (4) (b) (Cancellation
orders—Supreme Court powers); and
(d) is taken to be granted by the Territory under the Planning
Act 2023, chapter 10.
(2) If immediately before the registration of the authority, 2 or more
people were the owners of a unit, 2 or more units or all the units
(whether as joint tenants or tenants in common), the share in the
estate, or the whole estate, vests in them under subsection (1) (a)—
(a) if they were joint tenants—jointly; or
(b) if they were tenants in common—as tenants in common in
shares proportional to their former shares in the unit or units.
(3) The share in the estate that vests in a person under subsection (1) (a)
is subject to any mortgage and easement mentioned in the Land Titles
(Unit Titles) Act 1970, section 17.