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The plan is what makes the levy honest.

Check whether your building's maintenance plan is current, complete and properly costed — and whether the levies behind it add up.

Where is your building?

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.

New South Wales

NSW

Strata Schemes Management Act 2015

New South Wales requires every strata scheme to prepare a ten-year plan for its capital works fund, and from 1 April 2026 every new or revised plan must use a mandatory standard form....

Read the NSW guide

Victoria

VIC

Owners Corporations Act 2006

Victorian owners corporations of five or more lots must have a maintenance plan covering at least ten years, and prescribed owners corporations must also establish a maintenance fund to...

Read the VIC guide

Queensland

QLD

Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997

Queensland bodies corporate must prepare a sinking fund forecast covering at least the next nine years, adjusted annually — which makes Queensland's requirement more like a rolling...

Read the QLD guide

Western Australia

WA

Strata Titles Act 1985

Western Australia's 2020 reforms made a ten-year maintenance plan compulsory for schemes of ten or more lots, or where the building's replacement value exceeds $5 million. Many WA schemes...

Read the WA guide

South Australia

SA

Strata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996

South Australia requires a sinking fund, but — unlike most jurisdictions — it does not require a ten-year plan behind it. That leaves the adequacy of the fund entirely to the...

Read the SA guide

Tasmania

TAS

Strata Titles Act 1998

Tasmania requires a sinking fund but does not require a ten-year plan behind it. Combined with a state of mostly small, self-managed schemes, that means the great majority of Tasmanian...

Read the TAS guide

Australian Capital Territory

ACT

Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011

The ACT is unusually prescriptive here, and that is an advantage. The Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011 requires a sinking fund plan that estimates the amounts needed each year across a...

Read the ACT guide

Northern Territory

NT

Unit Titles Act 1975 and Unit Titles Schemes Act 2009

Sinking funds are a legal requirement in the Northern Territory, and a ten-year sinking fund plan or forecast is expected to sit behind one. The Territory is also the jurisdiction where a...

Read the NT guide

Why a plan on file is not the same as a plan that works

Most buildings have something. Far fewer have a plan that reflects the building as it actually is, costed at what work actually costs now, and matched to what the levies actually raise.

An old plan understates everything
Construction costs rose sharply from 2020. A plan built on pre-2020 numbers is not conservative — it is wrong, by a compounding margin.
A generic plan describes a building you do not own
Plans produced from a template rather than an inspection miss the things that are specific to your building, which are exactly the expensive things.
A plan nobody sets levies against changes nothing
The value is not the document. It is the contribution rate it implies, applied.
The special levy is the bill for not having one
Deferred maintenance does not go away. It arrives as a lump sum, usually at the worst time for the owners least able to pay it.

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