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Unit Titles Act 2001
170Effect of termination of unit lease
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170 Effect of termination of unit lease
(1) If the registrar-general, under the Land Titles (Unit Titles) Act 1970,
section 23, enters on a units plan a memorial of the termination of the
lease of a unit—
(a) the interest of the lessee in the unit ends; and
(b) the land that was, immediately before the endorsement, covered
by the lease continues to be a unit despite the termination; and
(c) the unit entitlement of the unit is omitted from the schedule of
unit entitlement; and
(d) the unit entitlement of each other unit is increased in proportion
(so that the total unit entitlement remains unchanged).
(2) After the termination of the lease of a unit and until a further lease of
that unit is granted—
(a) the easements given by section 35 continue, as they benefit or
burden the unit; and
(b) any easement declared under section 36 in effect at the time of
termination continues, as it benefits or burdens the unit; and
(c) all those easements are enforceable by and against the territory
planning authority as if the authority were the owner of the unit;
and
(d) a person authorised in writing by the authority has the same
rights to use the common property as the owner of the unit would
have had if the lease had not been terminated.
Note This section does not apply to a lease surrendered under the Planning
Act 2023, s 289 or a lease under a units plan that subdivides land under a
declared land sublease surrendered under this Act, s 167AA (see dict, def
termination).