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Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011
131Who is a financier for a service contract?
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131 Who is a financier for a service contract?
(1) A person is a financier for a service contract if—
(a) the person—
(i) is a financial institution; or
(ii) in the ordinary course of the person’s business, supplies, or
might reasonably be expected to supply, finance for
business acquisitions, using charges over contracts for
security; or
(iii) if the contract exists immediately before the
commencement of this part—at the time the finance was
supplied for a business acquisition using a charge over the
contract for security, was a person mentioned in
subparagraph (ii); and
(b) a service contractor for the contract and the person give written
notice signed by each of them to the owners corporation that the
person is a financier for the contract.
(2) A person stops being a financier for a service contract if the person
gives the owners corporation written notice withdrawing the notice
given under subsection (1).
(3) A notice under subsection (2) may be given without the service
contractor’s agreement.