Background
This options paper responds to feedback on Issues Paper 1: Conduct and institutional arrangements for estate agents, conveyancers and owners corporation managers and Issues Paper 2: Owners corporations, released earlier in the review. It examines the issues that have been identified for reform, and presents options for consideration, in the following areas:
- regulation of owners corporation managers
- responsibilities of developers, occupiers and committee members
- decision-making within owners corporations
- dispute resolution and legal proceedings
- whether owners corporations of varying size might be regulated differently
- finances, insurance and maintenance
- Part 5 of the Subdivisions Act 1988, which provides for the creation of owners corporations
- retirement villages with owners corporations.
Feedback on this options paper will inform the government in determining final legislative reforms.
Consultation closed
Public consultation on this options paper closed on 16 December 2016.
If you have any queries, please email cav.consultations@justice.vic.gov.au.
Submissions
The following public submissions were made (some submissions have been modified to protect privacy):
- Ace Body Corporate Management (PDF, 484KB)
- Arnold Bloch Leibler (PDF, 266KB)
- Australian Institute of Conveyancers (PDF, 349KB)
- Francis Bediaga (PDF, 74KB)
- Joseph Bediaga (Word, 80KB)
- Bosco Johnson (PDF, 516KB)
- Michael Carter (Word, 81KB)
- Tanya Carter (Word, 82KB)
- City of Melbourne (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Maree Comito (Word, 80KB)
- Community Housing Federation of Victoria (Word, 81KB)
- Compass Pools (PDF, 66KB)
- Consulting Surveyors Victoria (PDF, 144KB)
- Consumer Action Law Centre (PDF, 301KB)
- Antonio Da Cunha (Word, 80KB)
- Pru Davidson (Word, 122KB)
- Michael Davies (PDF, 71KB)
- Colin Dashwood (Word, 103KB)
- Shane Dooley (Word, 90KB)
- Graeme Efron (PDF, 44KB)
- Robert Evans (Word, 115KB)
- Timothy Freer (Word, 88KB)
- Luke Guthrie (Word, 80KB)
- Susan Horsburgh (Word, 81KB)
- Dr Ian Kaminskyj (Word, 82KB)
- Kelly + Partners Chartered Accountants (PDF, 112KB)
- Harry Klonis (Word, 81KB)
- Tim Kottek (PDF, 74KB)
- Jan Lacey (Word, 86KB)
- Max Langham (PDF, 68KB)
- Law Institute of Victoria (PDF, 725KB)
- Loddon Mallee Housing Services (Haven Home Safe) (PDF, 252KB)
- Lynette and Arthur Lumsden (Word, 83KB)
- Kate Martin (PDF, 91KB)
- Melbourne Body Corporate Management (PDF, 799KB)
- Melbourne Inner City Management Property - Owners Corporation (PDF, 714KB)
- Norman Mermelstein (PDF, 178KB)
- Neil Muller (Word, 83KB)
- Michael Nugent (PDF, 217KB)
- Dennis and Trina O'Hara (Word, 84KB)
- Tony Overell (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Evan Panayi (PDF, 85KB)
- Peter Parsons (PDF, 1.8MB)
- Prudential Investment Company of Australia (PDF, 264KB)
- Quit Victoria and Heart Foundation (PDF, 515KB)
- Real Estate Institute of Victoria (PDF, 2MB)
- Residents of Retirement Villages Victoria (Word, 169KB)
- David Robinson (Word, 84KB)
- Victoria Rother (Word, 28KB)
- Clive Rumney (Word, 88KB)
- Antoinette Sagaria (Word, 81KB)
- Maria Teresa Sagaria (Word, 81KB)
- P Sim (Word, 88KB)
- Mary Simic and Luiz Sasson (PDF, 126KB)
- John Smith (PDF, 452KB)
- Southbank Residents Association (PDF, 845KB)
- John Stewart (Word, 80KB)
- Robert Stewart (Word, 85KB)
- Strata Community Australia (PDF, 912KB)
- Robert Tanner (Word, 89KB)
- Tenants Union of Victoria (PDF, 416KB)
- Dr Alfred van Amelsvoort (Word, 81KB)
- Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (PDF, 926KB)
- We Live Here (PDF, 387KB)
- Nicole Wilde (PDF, 862KB)
- Marita Wilkinson (PDF, 71KB)
- Christine Yianoulatos (PDF, 90KB)
- John Yianoulatos (PDF, 80KB)
- Fui Kiew Adrian Yong and Boriana Statelova (Word, 124KB)
Download the options paper