New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENCROACHMENT OF BUILDINGS ACT 1922 - SECT 5

5 Charge on land

(1) The order for payment of compensation shall except so far as the Court may therein otherwise direct, upon registration operate as a charge upon the land of the encroaching owner in priority to any charge created by the encroaching owner or by his or her predecessor in title.

(2) In this section the land of the encroaching owner means the parcel of land contiguous to the boundary beyond which the encroachment extends, or such part thereof as the Court may specify in the order.