What is the current legislative scheme?
A. The main relevant Acts (for body corporate managers) are the Unit Titles Act and the Unit Title Schemes Act 2009. On 1 July 2009 most of the provisions of the following Acts commenced operation: Land Title and Related Legislation Amendment Act 2008 Unit Title Schemes Act 2009. Of relevance to this document, the Land Title and Related Legislation Amendment Act 2008 amended the Unit Titles Act so that: • most of Part V of the Unit Titles Act is repealed; • regulations can be made providing for “management modules”. Additionally, the Unit Title Schemes Act made the following amendments to the Unit Titles Act: • it amended the voting provisions so that the definitions of terms such as “majority resolution”, “ordinary resolution”. “resolution without dissent”, “special resolution” and “unanimous resolution” lined up with the definitions in the Unit Title Schemes Act; • it amended some of the provisions in the Unit Titles Act regarding the type of vote required.
