New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONVEYANCING ACT 1919 - SECT 196H

196H Signing of building management statement

(1) The Registrar-General may register a building management statement or any amendment of a registered building management statement only if the statement or amendment is--

(a) signed by each owner of a part of the building concerned or its site, and

(b) signed by every mortgagee, chargee or covenant chargee under a mortgage, charge or covenant charge recorded in a folio of the Register kept under the Real Property Act 1900 relating to a part of the building or its site.

(2) The Registrar-General may refuse to register a building management statement or an amendment of a registered building management statement unless there have been lodged with the Registrar-General written consents to the registration of the statement or amendment signed by (or by an agent authorised by) such one or more of the following as the Registrar-General determines--

(a) the lessee under any lease, or the judgment creditor under any writ, recorded in any folio of the Register affected by the statement or amendment,

(b) the caveator under a caveat affecting any estate or interest recorded in any folio of the Register affected by the statement or amendment.

(3) The Registrar-General may, in a particular case, dispense with the need to obtain any signature that would otherwise be required by or under this section without giving notice to any person.