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Queensland
- Relevant Legislation
- Introduction to Your Body Corporate
- Your Role as an Owner
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General Meetings
- Convening a General Meeting
- Content of General Meeting Notice
- Documents to include in the General Meeting Notice
- Explanatory Material
- Annual General Meeting
- Extraordinary General Meetings
- Conducting Business at a General Meeting
- Who May Vote at a General Meeting?
- Voting representation where one lot in the scheme is a subsidiary body corporate
- Loss of the Right to Vote
- How Voters can Vote
- Co-owners Voting
- Voting Papers
- Minutes of the Meeting
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Living Together
- By-Laws - The Rules Regulating Behaviour
- Enforceability of By-laws
- Conflicting Principal and Subsidiary Scheme By-laws
- Typical By-laws
- Changing the By-Laws
- Resident Parking
- Visitor Car Parking
- Dispute Resolution
- Dispute over Lot Entitlements
- Basis of Adjustment of Contribution Lot Entitlement Schedule
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The Committee
- Role of the Committee
- Committee Power
- Standing for the Committee
- Timing of Appointment of Committee Members
- Executive Positions
- Number of Members of Committee
- Committee Members Discharging their Duties
- Committee Elections
- Committee Meetings
- Committee Decisions
- Proxies For Committee Meetings
- Sub-committees
- How Stewart Silver King and Burns Works with the Committee
- Minutes of Committee Meetings
- Challenging Committee Decisions
- Replacing Committee Members
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Body Corporate Decisions
- Motions, Resolutions, Minutes
- Ordinary Resolution
- Majority Resolution (BCCMA Section 107)
- Special Resolution (BCCMA Section 106)
- Resolution Without Dissent (BCCMA Section 105)
- Resolution Outside of General Meeting (BCCMA Section 111)
- The Value of Lot Owners Votes
- Motion with Alternatives
- Changing a Community Management Statement
- Amalgamation of Bodies Corporate
- Steps to Amalgamate
- Motion to Amalgamate
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Financial Management
- Contributions
- How the Contributions are Set
- Calculation of the Lot Entitlements
- The Contributions Notice
- Discount and Penalty Interest on Contributions
- Paying Body Corporate Contributions
- Payment of Contributions while Overseas
- Recovery of Contributions
- Contribution Unpaid Amounts Attach to Lots
- Taxation
- Understanding Your Financials
- Audits
- Administrative Fund
- Sinking Fund
- Body Corporate Spending
- The Body Corporate Manager
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The Residential Manager
- General
- Duration of Resident Manager's Contract
- Resident Manager's Role
- Resident Manager's Report to the Committee
- Screening Holiday Letting Guests
- Resident Manager's Remuneration Increases
- Engagements and Variations of the Management Rights Agreements
- Committees Working with their Resident Manager
- Assignment of the Management Rights
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Insurance
- Introduction
- Compulsory Body Corporate Insurance
- Building Insurance
- Building Format Plan Lots
- Standard Format Plan Lots with No Common Walls
- Standard Format Plan Lots With Common Walls
- What is a Building?
- What Risk Must Be Insured?
- Risk Management
- Paying Premiums
- Voluntary Insurance
- Owner's Insurance Responsibilities
- Insurance Excesses
- Responsibility of original owner
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Common Property
- Signage
- Importance of Timely Maintenance of Common Property
- Defective Building Work
- Ownership of Common Property
- Maintaining Common Property
- Using Common Property
- Being Granted Exclusive Use of Common Property
- Improvements to Common Property by Owners
- Improvements to Common Property by the Body Corporate
- Acquisition of More Common Property
- Titling Common Property
- Developing Community Title Schemes
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Developers Creating Communities
- Developers Creating Communities
- What is Community Title for Flat Land?
- What Makes up Community Title
- Management System
- Market Acceptance
- Government and Regulatory Changes
- Is There a Compelling Case for Community Title to be Used Today?
- Marketing Advantages
- Developer's Advantages
- On-going Quality Assurance
- Flexibility with Approvals
- Is Community Title the Only Solution?
- Alternatives to Community Title
- Benefits
- Services
- Specific Services
- Security
- Community Facilities
- Covenants
- Community Social Advantages
- Sustainable Management
- Flexibility in Establishing the Governance for a Site
- Issues
- Developer Considerations
- Local Authority Concerns
- Market Acceptance
- Applying Community Title to a Flat Land Subdivision
- One Titling Option
- On-site Management
- Financial Considerations
- Savings From Being in a Community Title Scheme
- Purpose of Contribution Schedule Lot Entitlements
- Purpose of Interest Schedule Lot Entitlements
- Changing Entitlements
- Facilities Management
- Management Rights
- Layered Bodies Corporate
- Building Management Statements (BMS)
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Glossary of Terms
- Sinking Fund Forecast
- Glossary of Terms
- Administration Fund
- Building
- Building Format Plan
- Body Corporate Asset
- Resident Manager
- Body Corporate
- Body Corporate Manager
- Caretaking Service Contractor
- Conciliation Application
- Common Property
- Committee
- Community Management Statement
- Community Title Scheme
- Contribution Lot Entitlement
- Contributions
- Dispute Resolution
- Dispute Resolution Process
- Financial Year End
- Interest Lot Entitlement
- General Meeting
- Lot Entitlement
- Lot Entitlement Schedule
- Management Rights
- Original Owner
- Owner
- Occupier
- Quorum
- Sinking Fund
- Standard Format Plan
- Sinking Fund Forecast
- UDA By-law
- Utility Infrastructure
- Utility Service
- Volumetric Plan
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New South Wales
- Relevant Legislation
- Introduction To Your Owners Corporation
- General Meetings
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Living Together
- The Responsibilities of Owners and Residents
- By-laws
- By-laws 1-20 of Schedule 1
- A Guide to Solving Disputes in a Strata Scheme
- Notice to Comply With a By-law
- Mediation
- Orders by an Adjudicator
- A Hearing Before the Tribunal
- When Will the Tribunal Make its Decision?
- Office of Fair Trading
- How do You Apply?
- Can You Appeal a Decision By The Tribunal?
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The Executive Committee
- Executive Committee of the Owners Corporation
- Who is Eligible for Election to the Executive Committee?
- Meetings of the Executive Committee
- Adjournment of Meetings
- Non-Attendance at Meetings
- Voting in Writing
- Objection to Motions on Agenda
- Effect of Executive Committee Decisions
- Restrictions on Executive Committees
- Restrictions of Executive Committee Decisions
- Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings
- Powers and Duties of the Secretary
- Powers and Duties of the Treasurer
- Financial Management
- The Strata Manager
- The Caretaker and Building Manager
- Insurance
- Common Property
- Developing Strata Title Schemes
- Glossary of Terms
- Where to get more information
- Victoria