BSBLEG528 - Apply legal principles in property law matters

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• apply property law principles in at least four different matters.
  In the course of the above, the candidate must:
• prepare, give and obtain appropriate and accurate information and documents from the parties at the required stages of the legal process
• conduct duties according to legislative and organisational requirements
• apply the principles of property law in the buying and selling of property and preparation and execution of leases
• prepare documentation and carry out the administrative activities associated with buying and selling property and preparing leasing contracts.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• scope of job role in context of legislation, regulations and codes of practice
• court processes for property transfer and disputes
• mortgages including:

• legal implications
• processes for obtaining and discharging
• rights of mortgagees

• difference between real and personal property including distinctions in their method of transfer
• titles of ownership and their legal implications
• documentation processes associated with property law matters, including costing
• processes to obtain relevant documents from authorities and service providers
• content and process for drafting a lease including duties of lessor and lessee
• key principles of current property law
• key elements of legal processes required in this role
• documentation required in property law
• organisational policies and procedures pertinent to this role.