Conveyancing Act, 1911

Powers incident to estate or interest of mortgagees.

56 & 57 Vict. c. 55.

57 Vict. c. 10.

4.(1) The power of sale conferred on a mortgagee by section nineteen of the Act of 1881 shall include the following powers as incident thereto (namely):—

(i) A power to impose or reserve or make binding, as far as the law permits, by covenant, condition, or otherwise, on the unsold part of the mortgaged property or any part thereof, or on the purchaser and any property sold, any restriction or reservation with respect to building on or other user of land, or with respect to mines and minerals, or for the purpose of the more beneficial working thereof, or with respect to any other thing:

(ii) A power to sell the mortgaged property, or any part thereof, or any mines and minerals apart from the surface:—

(a) With or without a grant or reservation of rights of way, rights of water, easements, rights, and privileges for or connected with building or other purposes in relation to the property remaining in mortgage or any part thereof, or to any property sold;

(b) With or without an exception or reservation of all or any of the mines and minerals in or under the mortgaged property, and with or without a grant or reservation of powers of working, way-leaves, or rights of way, rights of water and drainage and other powers, easements, rights, and privileges for or connected with mining purposes in relation to the property remaining unsold or any part thereof, or to any property sold;

(c) With or without covenants by the purchaser to expend money on the land sold.

(2) Subsections (2) and (3) of section nineteen of the Act of 1881 shall apply to the foregoing powers conferred by this section.

(3) This section applies only where the mortgage deed is executed after the commencement of this Act.

(4) For the purpose of exercising any power conferred by this section, an application under section forty-four of the Trustee Act, 1893, as amended by section three of the Trustee Act, 1894, shall not be required.