Strata Titles Amendment Act 2018 (WA)

Western Australia

Western Australia

Strata Titles Amendment Act 2018

No. 30 of 2018

An Act —

to amend the Strata Titles Act 1985; and

to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts; and

for related purposes.

[Assented to 19 November 2018]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

This is the Strata Titles Amendment Act 2018.

This Act comes into operation as follows —

• (a)

  sections 1 and 2 — on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;

• (b)

  the rest of the Act — on a day fixed by proclamation, and different days may be fixed for different provisions.

A note in this Act is provided to assist understanding and does not form part of this Act.

This Part amends the Strata Titles Act 1985.

Note:

The sections amended in this Division and other sections not amended are redesignated or renumbered and relocated by Divisions 4 and 6.

Delete the long title and insert:

An Act —

to provide for the subdivision of land by strata titles schemes, the creation of strata titles and the governance and operation of strata titles schemes; and

for related purposes.

Delete the heading to Part 1 and insert:

Part 1 — Preliminary

• (1)

  In section 3(1) delete the definitions of:

administrator

building

Commission

common property

council

licensed surveyor

licensed valuer

local government

occupier

open space

original proprietor

parcel

permitted boundary deviation

person concerned

prescribed

proprietor

Register

Registrar of Titles

resolution without dissent

re‑subdivision

scheme

single tier strata scheme

special resolution

strata company

strata/survey‑strata plan

strata plan

strata scheme

structural cubic space

survey‑strata plan

survey‑strata scheme

take, taken and taking

two‑lot scheme

unanimous resolution

unit entitlement

• (2)

  In section 3(1) insert in alphabetical order:

   

2, 3, 4 or 5‑lot scheme means a strata titles scheme in which there are, respectively, 2, 3, 4 or 5 lots;

address for service — see section 215;

ADI means an authorised deposit‑taking institution within the meaning given in the Banking Act 1959 (Commonwealth) section 5(1);

administrative fund — see section 100(1)(a);

administrator of a strata company means a person appointed by the Tribunal as an administrator of the strata company under section 205;

amendment of a strata titles scheme —see section 12(2);

amendment in relation to common property or a lot in a strata titles scheme — see subsection (7);

approved form — a document, evidence or information is in an approved form only if it is in the form approved under the regulations or Transfer of Land Act requirements and it complies with any requirements of…