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Contractual Capacity – Close Corporation

Northview Shopping Centre v Revelas Properties (275/09) [2010] ZASCA 16 (18 March 2010) A close corporation, like a company, is a legal fiction. It can enter into legal transactions only through natural persons. The question for decision in this appeal was whether an agent of...

Cooling Off

There are potentially three types of cooling off applicable to the purchase of land 1. Purchaser price of R250 000 or less Section 29A of the Alienation of Land Act provides that if someone purchases a property valued at R250 000 or less they are...

Electric Fence Certificate of Compliance

Regulation 12 of the Electrical Machinery Regulations, 2011 imposes an obligation on the user of an electric fence system to have an electric fence system certificate of compliance in the event that a property with an electric fence is transferred. Regulation 12 does not prohibit...

Electrical Certificates of Compliance (ECC)

BASICS REGARDING THE NEW REGULATIONS: The issue of Certificates of Compliance (ECC) is regulated by the Occupational Health & Safety Act, 1993 read with the Electrical Installations Regulations 2009 (as amended from time to time). It is no longer regulated by the Machinery and Occupational...

Electronic Signatures and Sale of Immovable Property

1. The Alienation of Land Act provides as follows in section 2(1) thereof: 2 (1) No alienation of land after the commencement of this section shall, subject to the provisions of section 28, be of any force or effect unless it is contained in a...