This page contains different parts of laws about Buying and selling homes.
121A: Register of building societies
121C: Registrar may require document to be registrable or otherwise comply before registration
121D: When documents are registered
121E: Alterations to register
121F: Inspection of register
121G: Obtaining certified copy or extract from register
HG 7: Disposal of depreciable property
CB 11: Disposal within 10 years of improvement: building business
CB 15: Transactions between associated persons
CB 16: Residential exclusion from sections CB 6 to CB 11
CB 18: Residential exclusion from section CB 14
CW 6: Payments of interest: farm mortgages
DF 2: Repayment of grant-related suspensory loans
DZ 6: Partnership interests and disposal of part of asset before 16 December 1991
EE 67: Other definitions
EI 6: Amount paid for non-compliance: when lessor ceases to own land
FA 15: Treatment when agreement ends: seller acquiring property
FB 3: Land acquired for certain purposes or under certain conditions
FB 4: Land under scheme for major development or division
FB 5: Disposal of land
FB 7: Land with standing timber
FC 2: Transfer at market value
FC 3: Property transferred to spouse, civil union partner, or de facto partner
FC 5: Land transferred to close relatives
FO 17: Land
HC 4: Corpus of trust
LZ 8: Meaning of home vendor mortgage
LZ 9: Savings in special home ownership accounts
CB 23B: Land partially disposed of or disposed of with other land
209: Refund of money and return of land if development does not proceed
5: Fencing covenants and agreements registrable
7: Creation of fencing covenants
106: Consent authority may refuse subdivision consent in certain circumstances
185: Environment Court may order taking of land
218: Meaning of subdivision of land
224: Restrictions upon deposit of survey plan
225: Agreement to sell land or building before deposit of plan
226: Restrictions upon issue of certificates of title for subdivision
231: Esplanade reserves to vest on subdivision
237: Approval of survey plans where esplanade reserve or esplanade strips required
243: Survey plan approved subject to grant or reservation of easements
244: Company leases and cross leases
246: Restrictions on deposit of plan of survey for reclamation
402: Existing subdivision approvals
405: Transitional provisions for subdivisions
10: Meaning of allotment
78: Registrar-General of Land must record entry on record of title when certificate is lodged under section 77
79: Effect of entry recorded on record of title
81: Mortgage or charge has priority over registered instrument
82: Registrar-General of Land may require preparation of plan
434: Transitional provision for certain entries on certificates of title made under former Act
3: Property to vest in trustees or their successors
5: Transfer of properties
225A: Registers
1: Short Title and commencement
2: Interpretation
3: Registrar of Building Societies
4: Deputy Registrars of Building Societies
5: Official seal
6: Registers to be kept
7: Annual report by Registrar
8: Information as to societies, and inspection of documents kept by Registrars
9: Purpose for which building society may be established
9A: Functions of building societies
9B: Powers of building societies
9C: Ultra vires transactions
9D: Registration of documents not to constitute constructive notice
9E: Dealings between society and other persons
9F: Effect of fraud
10: Permanent and terminating societies
11: Power to raise and repay funds
12: Powers in relation to land
13: Mode of establishing society
14: Registration of rules of society
15: Incorporation of society
16: Appeal against refusal to register
17: Contents of rules
18: Effect of rules
20: Copies of rules to be supplied on request
21: Restriction on registration of names
22: Society to use registered name
24: Members who are not shareholders
25: Members under age of 20
26: Joint shareholders
27: Liability of members
27A: Interpretation
27B: Agreements to purchase shares
27C: Right of purchaser to cancel agreement
27D: Effect of cancellation of agreement
27E: No contracting out
27F: Schedule 7 may be amended
28: Business not to be commenced before incorporation
29: Minimum subscription by founding members
30: Commencement of advertising
31: Commencement of balloting for appropriations
31A: Bonus balloting shares and bonus ballots
32: Union of societies
33: Transfer of engagements
34: Supplementary provisions as to union and transfer of engagements
34A: Power to dispose of part of business undertaking
35: Advances on security of mortgage of land for residential purposes
36: Ordinary limitations on special advances
37: Permission to exceed limit for special advances
38: Permission to make special advance to purchaser of mortgaged property
39: Meaning of member for the purposes of this Part
40: Valuation of security
41: Additional security for advances
42: Record of advances
43: Security taken from third party
44: Arrangement for excess advance in connection with sale of property
45: Implied warranty on advance to purchaser, unless notice given to the contrary
46: Representation as to sufficiency of security
47: Restrictions on second or subsequent mortgages
48: Advance for single premium life policy
49: Restriction on commissions for introduction of mortgage business
50: Provisions as to sale of mortgaged property
51: Limitation on advances on security of members' shares
51A: Advances on security other than mortgage of land or members' shares, or without security
52: Power of Registrar to require actuary's certificate as to appropriations by ballot
53: Memorandum of discharge of mortgage
54: Interpretation
55: Investment and banking of surplus funds
55A: Societies to hold certain public securities
56: Borrowing powers
57: Restrictions on savings bank deposits
57A: Home ownership accounts and farm ownership accounts
58: Interest on deposits
59: Liability for borrowing in excess of powers
60: Assistance to other building societies
61: New investors and depositors to receive copies of accounts
62: Depositor under age of 20
63: Designation of societies for investments by trustees
56A: Investment powers
56B: Borrowing powers
56C: Power to give security
56D: Home ownership accounts and farm ownership accounts
56E: Depositor under age of 20
56F: Designation of societies for investments by trustees
56G: Memorandum of discharge of mortgage
64: Power to order suspension of borrowing and subscriptions for shares
65: Procedure to be followed in making order
66: Provisions consequential on Registrar's order
67: Power to give directions as to advertising
68: Procedure to be followed in giving direction
69: Power to require documents and information
70: Special powers of direction in relation to small societies
71: Supplementary provisions as to small societies
72: Registered office of society
73: Change of registered office
74: Duty to keep register
75: Inspection of register of members
76: Annual general meeting
77: Length of notice of meetings
78: Persons entitled to notice of meetings
79: Proxies
80: Right to demand a poll
81: Special resolutions
82: Notices of special resolutions
83: Directors
84: Giving of security by officers of society
85: Duty of officers to account
86: Disclosure of interest by directors
88: Notice of changes in holding of certain offices
89: Office management
90: Accounting records must be kept
91: Financial reporting
91A: Summary financial statements
92: Half-yearly financial statements must be prepared
93: Form and content of financial statements
94: Offences under sections 90 to 93
95: Directors' report
96: Distribution of copies of financial statements and reports
97: Depositors and members entitled to be supplied with copy of financial statements
97B: Election to receive summary financial statements
98: Appointment of auditors
99: Resolutions as to appointment and removal of auditors
100: Qualifications of auditors and access to information
101: Auditors' report and right to attend meetings
102: Accounts of groups in terminating society
103: Duty to make annual return
104: Annual return to disclose loans or other investments to certain officers or companies
105: Additional annual return of certain transactions
106: Auditors' report on annual return
107: Officers and auditors not to be exempted from liability
108: General provisions as to disputes
109: Determination of disputes by arbitration
110: Determination of disputes by Registrar
111: Determination of disputes by court
112: Effect of determination
113A: Building society may approve scheme for conversion of society into company under Companies Act 1993
113B: Cancellation of approval of scheme for conversion by High Court
113C: Special resolution approving scheme for conversion to be registered by Registrar of Building Societies
113D: Registrar of Companies to register society as company on receipt of certain documents
113E: Consequential provisions on conversion of society
113F: Enforceability of rights and liabilities altered by or arising under scheme for conversion
113G: Liability of members of company
113H: Prohibition on issue of terminating or bonus balloting shares in company to which society converts
113I: Preservation of rights of terminating shareholders
113J: Terms and conditions of bonus balloting securities not to be substantially different from terms and conditions of bonus balloting shares
113L: Application of Gambling Act 2003 to company ballots
113M: Prohibition on opening of new bonus balloting accounts after conversion date
113N: Retention of trustee investment status for 5 years from conversion
113O: Retention of approved status for accepting deposits in home ownership or farm ownership accounts
113P: Prohibition of bonus ballots after expiry of 3 years from conversion date
113Q: Regulations for purposes of this Part
113R: Taxes and duties
113S: Registers
114: Dissolution in accordance with rules
115: Dissolution by consent
116: Provisions as to dissolution under last 2 preceding sections
117: Dissolution on award of Registrar
118: Dissolution by appointment of liquidator
119: Liability of members on dissolution or liquidation
120: Notice of dissolution or liquidation
121: Provision as to terminating societies
122: General control of advertisements
122A: Powers of inspection of Registrar
122B: Registrar may refuse to disclose information relating to inspection
122C: Appeals from decisions under section 122B
122D: Power of FMA to require actuary's certificate as to appropriations by ballot
123: Inspections and special meetings
124: Compulsory cancellation or suspension of registration
125: Cancellation of registration at request of society
126: Effect of cancellation or suspension of registration
127: Provisions as to shares held jointly
128: Land acquired by exercise of powers as mortgagee to be sold
129: Evidence of rules
130: Form in which records may be kept
131: Exemptions from stamp duties
132: Offences in relation to property of societies
133: False statements in documents
135: Time for filing charging document
136: General penalty for offences
137: Regulations
138: Filing of rules of existing societies with District Registrars of Companies
139: Repeals, consequential amendments, and savings
Schedule 1: Standard rules for meetings
Schedule 2: Requirements relating to founders' and directors' shares
Schedule 3: Requirements relating to advertising
Schedule 4: Societies authorised to accept savings bank deposits
Schedule 5: Amendment to Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957
Schedule 6: Enactments repealed
Schedule 7:
CZ 25: Land and buildings as revenue account property affected by Canterbury earthquakes and replaced—insurance or compensation, Government purchase
CZ 26: Land and buildings affected by Canterbury earthquakes—sections CB 9 to CB 11 and CB 14 overridden for Crown purchases
CB 15B: When land acquired
199H: Who may decide development contribution objections
362H: When provisions relating to implied warranties apply
362K: Person may not give away benefit of warranties
362V: Offence for commercial on-seller to transfer household unit without code compliance certificate
FB 3A: Residential land
FC 9: Residential land transferred to executor, administrator, or beneficiary on death of person
GB 52: Arrangements involving residential land: companies’ shares
GB 53: Arrangements involving residential land: trusts
Schedule 34: Community housing trusts and companies: income and assets of beneficiaries and clients
9: Interpretation
46: Protection of purchaser of property in good faith and for valuable consideration
101: Contracts relating to property held on trust
112: Order may be made on court’s own motion or on application
RL 3: Associated persons: who must pay, and how?
RL 2: Vendors: who must pay, and how?
136A: Jurisdiction of District Court
EZ 78: Insurance for Hurunui/Kaikōura earthquake damage of property: treatment as disposal and reacquisition
2A: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
14: False representations and other misleading conduct in relation to land
13A: Transitional arrangements
CZ 25B: Land and buildings as revenue account property affected by Hurunui/Kaikōura earthquakes and replaced—insurance or compensation
EL 10: Exclusion for land held on revenue account
296D: Additional provisions relating to setting aside dispositions
CZ 39: Disposal within 5 years: bright-line test for residential land: acquisition on or after 29 March 2018
CZ 40: Main home exclusion for bright-line: acquisition on or after 29 March 2018
77J: Requirements in relation to evaluation report
CB 6AC: Residential land transferred in relation to certain Māori family trusts
DH 4: When this subpart does not apply: exemptions for new builds, development, social or emergency or transitional housing, and council housing
DH 7: Grandparented residential interest
CW 62C: Income from foreign-currency loans used for disallowed residential property
GB 53C: On-lending at lower rate
FC 9B: Residential land: certain transferors
137A: Validation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc
CZ 25C: Land or buildings as revenue account property affected by North Island flooding events and replaced—insurance or compensation
FD 2: Relief from bright-line test for Māori rollover trusts
FD 3: Certain transfers of residential land included in settlement of claim under Treaty of Waitangi
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