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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1969

Table of Provisions

PART I -- Preliminary  

  • 1 Short title
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  • 2 Commencement
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  • 4 Repeals
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  • 5 Savings
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  • 6 Application of this Act to certain Acts
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  • 7 Terms used in this Act

PART II -- Deeds and other instruments  

  • 8 Construction of expressions used in deeds and other instruments
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  • 8A Other valuation procedures
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  • 9 Formalities of deed
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  • 10 Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations
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  • 11 Persons taking who are not parties
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  • 12 Description of deeds
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  • 13 Conditions and certain covenants not implied
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  • 14 Receipt in deed sufficient
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  • 15 Receipt in deed or endorsed evidence
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  • 16 Construction of supplemental or annexed instrument

PART III -- General rules affecting property  

  • 17 Tenant for life without impeachment of waste, not to commit equitable waste
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  • 18 No merger at law where none in equity
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  • 19 Suits for possession of land by mortgagors
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  • 20 Assignment of debts and choses in action
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  • 21 Stipulations not of the essence of a contract
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  • 22 Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land, to cease
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  • 23 Estates tail abolished
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  • 24 Creation by deed of freehold in futuro
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  • 25 Creation by deed of estate in chattel real
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  • 26 Contingent remainders to take effect notwithstanding premature failure of preceding estate
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  • 27 Rule in Shelley’s Case abolished
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  • 28 Restriction on executory limitations
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  • 29 Corporations may hold as joint tenants
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  • 30 Receipts for income by married minors
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  • 31A Illegitimates to be included in class references

PART IV -- Conveyances and other instruments  

  • 32 Lands lie in grant only
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  • 33 Conveyances to be by deed
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  • 34 Instruments required to be in writing
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  • 35 Creation of interests in land by parol
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  • 36 Savings in regard to sections 34 and
  •   37. Power to dispose of fee simple by deed without words of inheritance  
  • 38 No use to result from absence of consideration
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  • 39 Limitations may be by direct conveyance without uses
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  • 40 No conveyance to have tortious operation
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  • 41 General words implied in conveyances
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  • 42 All estate clause implied
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  • 43 Partial release of land from rent
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  • 44 Power to person to convey property to himself etc.

PART V -- Covenants  

  • 45 Covenants for title implied
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  • 46 Construction of implied covenants
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  • 47 Benefits of covenants relating to land
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  • 48 Burden of covenants relating to land
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  • 49 Construction of covenants affecting land
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  • 50 Covenants to be joint and several
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  • 51 Effect of covenant with 2 or more jointly
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  • 52 Covenants and agreements entered into by a person with himself and another or others

PART VI -- Mortgages  

  • 53 Foreclosure extinguishes right of action for mortgage debt and equity of redemption
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  • 54 Realisation of equitable charges by the Court
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  • 55 Sale of mortgaged property in action for redemption or foreclosure
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  • 56 Restriction on consolidation of mortgages
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  • 57 Implied powers of mortgagees
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  • 58 Power to appoint receiver in the case of mortgage under the Transfer of Land Act 1893
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  • 59 Regulation of exercise of power of sale
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  • 60 Conveyance in exercise of power of sale
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  • 61 Application of proceeds of sale
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  • 62 Provisions as to exercise of power of sale
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  • 63 Mortgagee’s receipts, discharges etc.
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  • 64 Amount and application of insurance money
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  • 65 Appointment, powers, remuneration and duties of receiver
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  • 66 Application of money received by receiver
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  • 67 Effect of advance on joint account
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  • 68 Notice of trusts affecting mortgage money

PART VII -- Leases and tenancies

Division 1 -- Application of this Part  

  • 68A Limitation

Division 1a -- General  

  • 69 This Part to apply to leases under the Transfer of Land Act 1893
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  • 70 Tenant not prejudiced by assignment before notice
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  • 71 Tenancy from year to year not implied
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  • 72 Termination of tenancies
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  • 73 Waiver of a covenant in a lease, not to operate as general waiver
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  • 74 Abolition of interesse termini, and as to reversionary leases and leases for lives
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  • 75 Effect of extinguishment of reversion
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  • 76 Apportionment of conditions on severance
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  • 77 Rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with reversion
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  • 78 Obligation of lessor’s covenants to run with reversion
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  • 79 Effect of licences granted to lessees
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  • 80 Consent to assign or sublet not to be unreasonably withheld
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  • 81 Restrictions and relief against forfeiture of leases and under-leases
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  • 82 Certain assignments not to be deemed a breach
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  • 83 Surrender of head lease to grant new lease not to prejudice under-lease

Division 2 -- Options in leases  

  • 83A Interpretation
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  • 83B Construction and application of Division
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  • 83C Breach of certain obligations not to preclude lessee from exercising option in certain circumstances
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  • 83D Court may grant relief from breach of certain obligations
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  • 83E Lease to continue in force until issue decided

PART VIII -- Powers of attorney  

  • 84 Execution by attorney in his own name
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  • 85 Continuance until notice of death or revocation received
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  • 86 Irrevocable power of attorney for value
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  • 87 Power of attorney made irrevocable for fixed time
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  • 88 Application to corporations

PART IX -- Voidable dispositions  

  • 89 Voluntary conveyances to defraud creditors voidable
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  • 90 Voluntary disposition to defraud purchasers voidable
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  • 91 Subsequent conveyance not to be evidence of intent to defraud
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  • 92 Acquisitions of reversions at an under value

PART X -- Powers of appointment  

  • 93 Disclaimer etc. of powers
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  • 94 Effect of disclaimer etc.
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  • 95 Protection of purchasers claiming under certain void appointments
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  • 96 Validation of appointments where objects are excluded or take illusory shares
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  • 97 Execution of powers not testamentary
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  • 98 Application of this Part to existing powers

PART XI -- Perpetuities and accumulations  

  • 99 Application
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  • 100 Terms used in this Part
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  • 101 The perpetuity period
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  • 102 Capacity to procreate or bear a child
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  • 103 Wait and see rule
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  • 104 Power of Court to make declaration as to validity of limitations
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  • 105 Invalid age contingencies
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  • 106 Class gifts
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  • 107 Order of applying rules
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  • 108 Unborn spouses or de facto partners
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  • 109 Dependent limitations
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  • 110 Options
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  • 111 Application of the rule to possibilities of reverter, rights of entry and resulting trusts
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  • 112 Powers of appointment
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  • 113 Accumulations of income
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  • 114 Rule in Whitby v. Mitchell abolished
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  • 115 Superannuation funds etc.

PART XII -- Succession  

  • 118 Intermediate income of executory or contingent gifts
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  • 119 Application of section
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  • 120 Devolution of property in cases of simultaneous deaths

PART XIII -- Easements, encroachments and mistake  

  • 121 Easement of light and air only by registered grant or instrument
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  • 122 Power of Court to grant special relief in cases of encroachment
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  • 123 Relief in cases of mistake as to boundaries or identity of land
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  • 124 Recovery of payments made under mistake of law
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  • 125 Payments made under mistake of law or fact not always recoverable

PART XIV -- Partition of land and division of chattels  

  • 126 In action for partition Court may direct land to be sold
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  • 127 Proceeds of sale, how applied
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  • 128 Costs in partition suits
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  • 129 Division of chattels

PART XV -- Apportionment  

  • 130 Terms used in this Part
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  • 131 Income apportionable in respect of time
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  • 132 Time when apportioned part payable
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  • 133 Recovery of apportioned parts
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  • 134 Exceptions and application

PART XVI -- Service of notices  

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