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STRATA TITLES ACT 1985
ACT 318
(Amendment enforced from 12 April 2007)

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PART X - MISCELLANEOUS

68. (Deleted).

69. No dealing in accessory parcel independent of a parcel.

70. No dealing in provisional block.

71. (Deleted)

72. (Deleted)

73. Other rights and remedies not affected by this Act.

74. Jurisdiction of the Magistrate's Court.

75. Legal proceedings.

76. Management corporation as representative of proprietors in legal proceedings.

77. Power of management corporation to take proceedings as agent for proprietors in case of defects to parcels.

PART X - MISCELLANEOUS

68.  (Deleted by Act A753).

69.  No dealing in accessory parcel independent of a parcel.

No accessory parcel or any share or interests therein shall be dealt with independently of the parcel to which such accessory parcel has been made appurtenant as shown on the approved strata plan.

70.  No dealing in provisional block.

(1) No provisional block or any share or interests therein shall be dealt with.

(2) Where any dealing of a provisional block has been registered, such registration shall not pass any title or interest in the said provisional block, and the Registrar shall, upon discovery of the registration, cancel the registration and no person or body affected by such cancellation shall be entitled to any compensation.

71.  (Deleted by Act A753).

72.  (Deleted by Act A753).

73.  Other rights and remedies not affected by this Act.

Nothing in this Act shall affect any other rights or remedies which a proprietor or chargee of a parcel or a management corporation may have, in relation to any parcel or the common property, conferred by any other written law.

74.  Jurisdiction of the Magistrate's Court.

Any offence under this Act may be tried by a Magistrate's Court and such Magistrate's Court shall, notwithstanding the provisions of the Subordinate Courts Act, 1948 or any other written law, have power to impose the maximum penalty provided for by this Act.

75.  Legal proceedings.

(1) Every application to the court under this Act shall be by summons in Chambers.

(2) Where there is provision for a sum to be recoverable by any person or any authority from any other person or authority the sum shall be recoverable by an action for debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.

76.  Management corporation as representative of proprietors in legal proceedings.

(1) Where proprietors are jointly entitled to take legal proceedings against any persons or are liable to have legal proceedings taken against them jointly, where such legal proceedings are proceedings for or with respect to common property, the legal proceedings may be taken by or against the management corporation, and any judgments or orders given or made in favour of or against the management corporation in any such legal proceedings shall have effect as if they were judgments or orders given or made in favour of or against the proprietors.

(2) Where a proprietor is liable to make a contribution to another proprietor in respect of a judgment debt arising under a judgment referred to in subsection (1), the amount of that contribution shall bear the same proportion to the judgment debt as the share units of the parcel or the provisional share units of the provisional block of the first-mentioned proprietor bear to the aggregate share units.

77.  Power of management corporation to take proceedings as agent for proprietors in case of structural defects.

Where-

(a) the condition of any parcel in a lot affects or is likely to affect the support or shelter provided by that parcel for another parcel in the same building or the common property; and

(b) the proprietor of the parcel in that condition has neglected or refused within a reasonable time to take such action as is necessary, or for the purpose of exercising any other right or enforcing any other remedy available to him to have that condition rectified,

the management corporation or the original proprietor under Part IX, as the case may be, may, as agent for the proprietor of the parcel in that condition but at its own expense, take any of the proceedings referred to in paragraph (b).

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