QUT Review Panel: consultations closing

You may be aware that the Commercial and Property Law Research Centre of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is conducting a review of Queensland’s property laws for the Queensland Government.  The review includes an examination of important issues arising under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (BCCM Act) as well as the Building Units & Group Titles Act 1980 (BUGT Act).

The below public consultation activities relating to the review are closing soon.

1. Building Units and Group Titles Act 1980 (submissions close 22 September)

QUT’s issues paper examines key differences between the BCCM Act and the BUGT Act and seeks views on whether lot owners and bodies corporate regulated under the BUGT Act would benefit from provisions comparable to those in the BCCM Act.

1. Body corporate procedural issues (submissions close 6 October)

QUT’s report on body corporate procedural issues makes 64 recommendations relating to procedural aspects of body corporate governance to address common concerns of lot owners, streamline and modernise administrative processes, reduce red tape, improve transparency in decision making, facilitate legislative compliance, and increase consumer protection.

You can download a copy of QUT’s issues paper on the BUGT Act and QUT’s recommendations on body corporate procedural issues at the community consultation page of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General website here.

Please send your comments to:

Email

QUTreviewBCCM@justice.qld.gov.au

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QUT Review-BCCM
C/- Office of Regulatory Policy
Department of Justice and Attorney-General
GPO Box 3111
Brisbane QLD 4001.