owner

owner

means, in relation to land or a registered right in or over land, the person in whose name such land or right is registered, and-

a)	if the owner of any property is deceased, the executor in his estate;

b)	if the estate of the owner of any property has been sequestrated, the trustee of his insolvent estate;

c)	if the owner of any property is a company which is being wound up, the liquidator thereof;

d)	if any property has vested in a liquidator or trustee elected or appointed in terms of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1966 (Act 28 of 1966), that liquidator or trustee;

e)	if the owner of any property is otherwise under a legal disability, his legal representative;

f)	if any property has been attached in terms of an order of a court, includes the sheriff, deputy-sheriff or messenger of the court concerned, as the case may be;

g)	in relation to a holding allotted, leased, sold or granted in terms of the Land Settlement Act, 1956 (Act 21 of 1956), the person to whom it was so allotted, leased, sold or granted or his cessionary or sub-lessee;

h)	includes the authorized representative of the owner in the Republic;

i)	in the case of a public place or road under the control of a local authority, that local authority;

j)	in the case of a right of leasehold granted in terms of section 52 of the Black Communities Development Act, 1984 (Act 4 of 1984), the holder of such right;