Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Common areas and facilities.— (1) Each apartment owner shall be entitled to an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities in the percentage specified in the Deed of Apartment and the limited common areas and facilities. Such percentage shall be computed by taking as the basis the extent of the plinth area available in the apartment in relation to the total extent of the plinth area available in the building. (2) The parentage of the undivided interest of each apartment owner in the common areas and facilities and in the limited common areas and facilities, if any, as expressed in the Deed of Apartment shall have a permanent character, and shall not be altered without the consent of all the apartment owners. The percentage of the undivided interest in such common areas and facilities and the limited common areas and facilities shall not be separated from the apartment to which it appertains, and shall be deemed to be conveyed or encumbered with the apartment whether or not such interest is expressly mentioned in the conveyance or other instrument. (3) The common areas and facilities and the limited common areas and facilities shall remain undivided and no apartment owner or any other person shall bring any action for partition or division of any part thereof and any covenant to the contrary shall be null and void. (4) Each apartment owner may use the common areas and facilities and the limited common areas and facilities in accordance with the purpose for which they are intended without hindering or encroaching upon the lawful rights of the other apartment owners. (5) The necessary work of maintenance, repairs and replacement of the common areas and facilities and the limited common areas and facilities and the making of any additions or improvements thereto shall be carried out only in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the bye-laws. 7.Compliance with covenants, bye-laws and administrative provisions .— (1) Every apartment owner shall comply strictly with the bye-laws and with the covenants, conditions and restrictions set forth in the Deed of Apartment in relation to his apartment. (2) Where any apartment owner fails to comply with any of the bye-laws or covenants, conditions or restrictions referred to in sub-section (1), such failure shall be a ground for an action against such apartment owner to recover sums due, for damages or injunctive relief or both maintainable by the society or the Association of Apartment owners or, in a proper case, by the aggrieved apartment owner.