Section 31: Notice of date of sale

31. Notice of date of sale (1) Within 14 days, after the reading of the memorandum of charges, the attorney in charge of the sale shall publish, in the Gazette and in 3 daily newspapers, a notice in the form of the First Schedule— (a) announcing the day when the property shall be put up for sale and adjudication; and (b) calling on all parties who have a right to take inscription of legal mortgage on the property to exercise their right before the transcription of the title deed of the adjudicatee. (1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), this section shall, at the request of the debtor, not apply for a period of 2 years from the date of the reading of S3 – 11 [Issue 10] Sale of Immovable Property Act the memorandum of charges where the mortgaged immovable property is the sole residence of the debtor and the said debtor has been made redundant on economic grounds. (2) Similar notices shall be again published, in the Gazette and in 3 daily newspapers, not less than 12 days before the day fixed for the sale and adjudication of the property. [S. 31 amended by s. 48 (a) of Act 10 of 2017 w.e.f. 24 July 2017.]