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What is considered a Common Part?

The Common Parts are usually defined in the deed of acquisition of the property. Unless the contract states otherwise, the following are considered to form part of the Common Parts, even if one or more owners do not make use thereof:

(a) the land on which the building is constructed, the foundations, the external walls, including the common dividing walls with neighbouring tenements, the roofs, the shafts, the stairs, the entrance doors, the lobbies, corridors, the stairwells, the courtyards, the gardens, the airspace above the whole property and in general, all the other parts of the property which are intended for the common use;

(b) the parts used as a reception and as a common washroom and the parts used as a porter’s lodge, for the central heating equipment, and for all other facilities intended for the common use; and

(c) lifts, wells, cisterns, aqueducts, sewers, drainage pipes, all installations for water, gas, electricity, heating and similar services up to where the said installations branch off to the exclusive property of each owners, and works, installations and objects of whatever type intended for the common use or benefit.