Conveyancing Amendment (Building Management Statements) Act 2001 (NSW)

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An Act to amend the Conveyancing Act 1919 in relation to the management of buildings subdivided by plans registered under that Act, and for other purposes.

1Name of Act

This Act is the Conveyancing Amendment (Building Management Statements) Act 2001.

2Commencement

This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

3Amendment of Conveyancing Act 1919 No 6

The Conveyancing Act 1919 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1Amendments

(Section 3)

[1]Part 23, Division 3B

Insert after Division 3A of Part 23:

Division 3BProvisions relating to stratum lots196BApplication of Division

This Division applies only to land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900.

196CDefinitions

In this Division and Schedules 8A and 8B:

Australian Height Datum means a system of control points for height, approved by the Surveyor-General, based on a network of levelling measurements that covered the whole of Australia and that was fitted to mean sea level, as measured at tide gauges distributed around the Australian coast, over the period 1968–1970.

development consent has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

owner of a part of a building or a site means a person in whom is vested an estate in fee simple, recorded in a folio of the Register kept under the Real Property Act 1900, in the part of the building or the site.

plan of subdivision of a building means a plan of subdivision (within the meaning of Division 3) for a building or part of a building, being a plan of subdivision that contains a stratum lot.

registered building management statement means a building management statement registered under this Division.

stratum lot means a lot that is limited in height or depth (or both) by reference to Australian Height Datum or another datum approved by the Surveyor-General, but does not include a lot within the meaning of the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 or the Strata Schemes (Leasehold Development) Act 1986.

196DBuilding management statement may be registered

The Registrar-General may register with a plan of subdivision of a building, or subsequently, a building management statement for the building and its site.

196EFormal requirements(1)

A building management statement proposed to be registered under this Division and any amendment of a registered building management statement must be in the approved form.

(2)

A registered building management statement as in force from time to time must comply with Schedule 8A and that Schedule applies to any such statement.

(3)

The Registrar-General may register a building management statement and an amendment of a registered building management statement by making such recordings in the Register as the Registrar-General considers appropriate.

(4)

The Registrar-General may refuse to register a building management statement or an amendment of a registered building management statement if the application for registration fails to comply with any requirement made by this Act or the…

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