Section 125Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)

Attornment etc

(1) Upon a conveyance of the reversion or remainder expectant or depending upon a lease of any land no attornment by the lessee under the lease shall be necessary.
(2) No lessee shall be prejudiced or damaged by payment of any rent to any grantor, transferror, or assignor of any reversion, or by breach thereby occasioned of any condition for non-payment of rent, before notice is given to the lessee of such grant, transfer, or assignment by the grantee, transferee, or assignee.
(3) An attornment by a lessee of land to a stranger claiming title to the estate of the lessor shall be void unless the same is made with the consent of the lessor.
(4) Sections nine and ten of the Imperial Act Four Anne, chapter sixteen (or chapter three), and section eleven of the Imperial Act Eleven, George the Second, chapter nineteen, are hereby repealed, so far as the same apply to New South Wales.

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