Background
The focus of this issues paper is the Owners Corporations Act 2006, which provides for the management, powers and functions of owners corporations (formerly body corporates), and mechanisms to resolve disputes.
The paper examines issues regarding:
- the function and operation of owners corporations (except for the conduct of owners corporation managers, which forms part of Issues paper 1: Conduct and institutional arrangements)
- Part 5 of the Subdivision Act 1988, which provides for the creation of owners corporations, the vesting of and dealings in the common property, and the alteration of subdivisions
- the interaction between the Owners Corporations Act and the Retirement Villages Act 1986. Consultation on these issues will form part of a staged review of certain aspects of the Retirement Villages Act.
The Owners corporations issues paper looks at whether these Acts are achieving their purposes and, in doing so, whether they are also achieving their informal purpose of improving the ‘liveability’ of strata communities.
Throughout the paper, issues have been raised for consideration and comment. Many have been raised by stakeholders during preliminary consultation for the Consumer property law review.
The issues paper does not attempt to provide data or evidence to substantiate the issues raised. Its purpose is to draw out evidence and commentary from stakeholders about the nature of the issue and extent of any problems.
Feedback on this issues paper will inform the development of an options paper on potential legislative changes. Submissions on the options paper will inform the government in determining final legislative reforms.
Consultation closed
Public consultation on this issues paper closed on 29 April 2016.
If you have any queries, please email cav.consultations@justice.vic.gov.au.
Submissions
The following public submissions were made:
- 100 unit owners corporation (PDF, 263KB)
- Alfred van Amelsvoort (Word, 83KB)
- Anonymous (Word, 36KB)
- Arnold Bloch Leibler (PDF, 178KB)
- Association of Consulting Surveyors (PDF, 329KB)
- Australian Institute of Conveyancers (Word, 46KB)
- Meg Back (Word, 82KB)
- Howard Barnes (PDF, 901KB)
- Francis Bediaga (PDF, 37KB)
- Joseph Bediaga (PDF, 31KB)
- Brad Beitzel (Word, 82KB)
- Heather Benbow (Word, 82KB)
- Bosco Johnson Pty Ltd (PDF, 217KB)
- Brand Partners (PDF, 217KB)
- Melissa Brown (Word, 14KB)
- City of Melbourne (PDF, 4.4MB)
- Peter Condliffe (PDF, 164KB)
- Consumer Action Law Centre (PDF, 321KB)
- Matthew Cooke (Word, 81KB)
- Coralie Coulson (Word, 17KB)
- Paul Cummaudo (Word, 1.05MB)
- Dixon Kestles & Co Pty Ltd (Word, 91KB)
- Efron & Associates (PDF, 74KB)
- Robert Evans (PDF, 233KB)
- Timothy Freer (Word, 27KB)
- Nanette Gibson (Word, 80KB)
- Megan Gourlay (Word, 83KB)
- Pam and Tony Hoare (Word, 84KB)
- Imperial Tobacco (PDF, 197KB)
- Dean Jackson (Word, 86KB)
- Ablo Jalloh (Word, 104KB)
- Nicole Johnston and Nicole Wilde (PDF, 509KB)
- Nicole Johnston (PDF, 280KB)
- John Kakos, Elena Tsapatolis, Kon Kilopoulos, Iris Stewart, John McLean, Ury Lamburyanou and Sam Vanikiotis (PDF, 303KB)
- Ray Kleijngeld (Word, 84KB)
- Harry Klonis (PDF, 64KB)
- Tim Kottek (PDF, 77KB)
- Rod Lambert (Word, 50KB)
- Law Institute of Victoria (PDF, 686KB)
- Nada Lazarevic (Word, 81KB)
- Flora Liu (Word, 1.02MB)
- Annemarie Loison (Word, 80KB)
- Matthew McCrory (Word, 23KB)
- Ray and Faye McDonald (Word, 51KB)
- Jim McLaughlin (Word, 36KB)
- Fergus Moffat (Word, 82KB)
- Jonathan Morton (Word, 81KB)
- Frances Murphy (Word, 82KB)
- Peter Nedovic (PDF, 107KB)
- Brendan Nunn (Word, 82KB)
- Tony Overell (PDF, 335KB)
- Owners corporation 12480 (Word, 538KB)
- Peter Parsons (Word, 38KB)
- Margaret Peril (PDF, 1.02MB)
- Mark Perraton (Word, 89KB)
- Ingrid Pezzoni (Word, 83KB)
- Property Council of Australia (PDF, 877KB)
- Prudential Investment Company of Australia (Word, 100KB)
- Quit Victoria (PDF, 548KB)
- Real Estate Institute of Victoria (PDF, 882KB)
- Residents of Retirement Villages Victoria (Word, 221KB)
- John Scott (Word, 81KB)
- George Selkrig (Word, 17KB)
- John Smith (PDF, 283KB)
- Southbank Residents Association (PDF, 160KB)
- Robert Stewart (Word, 14KB)
- Strata Community Australia (Word, 202KB)
- Strata Community Insurance (PDF, 561KB)
- Strata Community Managers Pty Ltd (PDF, 666KB)
- Austin Swain (Word, 80KB)
- Tenants Union of Victoria (PDF, 708KB)
- TM Education Works (Word, 81KB)
- Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (PDF, 1.18MB)
- Victorian Small Business Commissioner (PDF, 872KB)
- Warringal Conveyancing (Word, 81KB)
- Watergate Owners Corporation (Word, 116KB)
- Peter Weeks, Russell Spier and Elizabeth Moloney (Word, 35KB)
- We Live Here (Word, 120KB)
- Barbara West (Word, 81KB)
- Barbara Wilk (Word, 81KB)
- Casey Wohlfont (Word, 81KB)
- Adrian Young (Word, 1.04MB)
Download the issues paper