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Get your by-laws reviewed, updated and properly registered — so they hold up when somebody tests them.
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Get your by-laws reviewed, updated and properly registered — so they hold up when somebody tests them.
The job is the same everywhere. The rules, the words and the money are not. Pick your state or territory and we will show you the version that actually applies.
Strata Schemes Management Act 2015
New South Wales is the jurisdiction where the registration step catches the most buildings out. A change to your by-laws is passed by special resolution at a general meeting — and then...
Read the NSW guideOwners Corporations Act 2006
Victoria calls them rules rather than by-laws, and an owners corporation that has never made its own runs on the model rules in the regulations. Those are lawful but generic. Making your...
Read the VIC guideBody Corporate and Community Management Act 1997
Queensland keeps its by-laws inside the community management statement, which makes changing them a different exercise from anywhere else: you are not amending a by-law, you are recording...
Read the QLD guideStrata Titles Act 1985
Western Australia splits its by-laws in two: governance by-laws about how the strata company runs itself, and conduct by-laws about what people may do in the building. The two are amended...
Read the WA guideStrata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996
South Australia's answer depends on which Act created your scheme. Strata corporations under the Strata Titles Act 1988 have by-laws; community corporations under the Community Titles Act...
Read the SA guideStrata Titles Act 1998
Tasmanian bodies corporate have by-laws under the Strata Titles Act 1998, and because most Tasmanian schemes are small and self-managed, the by-laws are usually whatever was registered at...
Read the TAS guideUnit Titles (Management) Act 2011
The ACT calls them rules, and an owners corporation that has not made its own is running on the default rules in the Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011. Making your own takes a special...
Read the ACT guideUnit Titles Act 1975 and Unit Titles Schemes Act 2009
Northern Territory by-laws sit under whichever Act created your scheme — the Unit Titles Act 1975 or the Unit Titles Schemes Act 2009 — and are lodged with the Land Titles Office....
Read the NT guideA by-law is the only thing standing between a shared building and an argument about what people may do in it. It is worth having ones that are current, that are enforceable, and that a court or tribunal would actually uphold.
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