Commonhold unit
Section 14: Use and maintenance
62.Section 14(1) places a requirement on the commonhold community statement to make the necessary provisions and regulations governing the use of commonhold units. This will be the place in which the statement will specify whether, for instance, the unit is to be residential only (see section 17(5)). Subsection (2) requires the statement to impose obligations to insure, maintain and repair each unit, but subsection (3) gives the flexibility of allowing each of those responsibilities to be imposed on either the unit-holder or on the commonhold association. For instance, the statement could require the unit-holder to take out an insurance policy on the fabric of a flat whilst making the commonhold association responsible for insuring and maintaining a balcony. It could also require a unit-holder to be responsible for the decoration of the inside of window units whilst making the commonhold association responsible for decoration of the outside of the same units.
