Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2005 (NSW)

2005 No 245

New South Wales

Strata Schemes Management

Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2005

under the

Strata Schemes Management Act 1996

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996.

JOHN HATZISTERGOS, M.L.C.,

Minister for Fair Trading

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to increase fees payable:

(a)	to the Registrar of the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal, and
(b)	to the Commissioner for Fair Trading in the Department of Commerce (who is referred to in the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 as the Director-General of that Department),

in respect of certain services in connection with strata schemes management. section 246 (the general regulation-making power).

The fee increases are in line with movements in the Consumer Price Index.

Published in Gazette No 73 of 17 June 2005, page 2440	Page 1
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Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Fees)

Regulation 2005

under the

Strata Schemes Management Act 1996

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Fees)
Regulation 2005.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2005.

3 Amendment of Strata Schemes Management Regulation 1997

The Strata Schemes Management Regulation 1997 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2005

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 3)

Clause 16

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

16      Fees

(1)  The following fees are payable to the Registrar in respect of the
services specified:

Service	Fee
Lodgment of application for order by an	$61
Adjudicator or the Tribunal
Lodgment of application for interim order by an	$61
Adjudicator or the Tribunal
Lodgment of notice of appeal	$61
Issue of summons to appear before the Tribunal	$34
Copy of document (other than transcript), per	$2 per page or $22
page	(whichever is greater)
Duplicate tape recording of evidence or	“at cost”
proceedings, per cassette
Copy of written transcript of evidence or	“at cost”
proceedings, per page

Note. There is no longer a fee for the inspection of a file.

(2)

The following fee is payable to the Director-General in respect of
the service specified:

Service	Fee
Application for mediation	$61

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(3)

The following fees are payable to an owners corporation for the
services specified below:

Service	Fee
For making records available for inspection	$24 and an
under section 108 of the Act	additional $12 for each half-hour or part of half an hour

after the first hour of

inspection

For giving a certificate under section 109 of the	$84 and an
Act	additional $42 for a further certificate for a lot comprising a garage, parking space or storeroom that services the lot the subject of the first certificate
(4)	For the purposes of section 209 (1) (b) of the Act, the prescribed fee for the lodgment of an order under the Act is the fee payable for lodgment of a document under the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 for which no specific fee is prescribed by the regulations under that Act.
Note. The relevant fee as at 1 July 2005 was $77.25, as prescribed by the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Regulation 2002.

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