Sectional Titles Act, 1986 (Act No. 95 of 1986)RegulationsSectional Titles Amendment Regulations, 202125A. Replacement of documentation referred to in section 25(2) |
| (1) | A registrar of deeds must, if any of the documentation referred to in section 25(2)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (g) of the Act have been lost or destroyed, on written application by the body corporate or if a body corporate has not been established, on written application by the developer, accompanied by replacement documentation, arrange for such replacement documentation to be filed in the relevant sectional title file. |
| (2) | The registrar of deeds must, before filing of the replacement documentation in the relevant sectional title file, at the expense of his or her deeds registry, publish in the prescribed form a notice in two consecutive ordinary issues of the Gazette and in two consecutive issues of a newspaper circulating in the area of jurisdiction of the deeds registry in which the scheme is registered. of the intention for replacement documentation to be filed in the relevant sectional title file. |
| (3) | A draft of the replacement documentation accompanying the application, shall be open for inspection in the deeds registry free of charge by any interested person, for a period of six weeks after the date of the first publication of the notice in the Gazette, during which period any person interested may object to the filing of replacement documentation in the relevant sectional title file. |
| (4) | Any person who has lodged with the registrar an objection to the filing of the replacement documentation in the relevant sectional title file may, in default of any arrangement between him and the applicant, apply to the court within one month after the last day upon which an objection may be lodged, for an order prohibiting the registrar from filing the replacement documentation in the relevant sectional title file, and the court may make such order on the application as it may deem fit. |
| (5) | The replacement documentation shall be as nearly as possible a reflection of the lost or destroyed documentation and shall take the place of the lost or destroyed documentation. |
| (6) | The replacement documentation must be endorsed with a deeds registry date endorsement upon the filing thereof in the relevant sectional title file. |
| (7) | In the event of any of the documentation referred to in section 25(2)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (g) of the Act, in lieu of which a copy has been issued under the provisions of this regulation, being subsequently found and produced to the registrar, he or she shall endorse thereon that it has become void. |
[Regulation 25A inserted by regulation 9 of Notice No. R. 820 dated 28 September 2011]