Main Changes - Unit Title Act 2010
The main changes to the Unit Titles Act 2010 include:
- Clarifying the definition of a principal unit
- Unit entitlements replaced by ownership interest and utility interests
- More flexibility for easements and land covenants
- Access lots can be part of a unit development
- New process for layered developments
- New process for simple redevelopment
- Section 224c RMA certificates can be for stage plans instead of PUD
- Streamlining the process under which a development is built in stages
- Creating a fair system for calculating how much a unit owner should contribute to body corporate funds
- Stating that the body corporate owns the common property
- Clarifying the rights and responsibilities of unit owners and bodies corporate
- Creating fair and transparent governance and management structures
- Lower the voting threshold for body corporate decisions from a unanimous resolution to a 75% agreement
- Provide a comprehensive disclosure regime for buyers and sellers, developers, and bodies corporate
- Provide a fully integrated and cost effective dispute resolution service through the Tenancy Tribunal.
For a more detailed list of points of difference relating to survey and title transactions, see Appendix A in the Unit Titles Act 2010 Guideline.
Summary of changes affecting unit plans
This page contains a summary of the main points of difference between the Unit Titles Act 1972 and the Unit Titles Act 2010 provisions affecting unit plans. more...
Changes to Landonline
There are a number of changes that will affect Landonline customers, including 15 new instrument types, four current instrument types that will remain and four existing instrument types that will no longer be required under the 2010 Act.
Refer to the following documents for more detail:
In addition to the new instrument types there are six new survey purposes:
- Subsidiary Standard Unit Plan
- Subsidiary Standard Unit Plan with Survey Sheet
- Subsidiary Proposed Unit Development
- Subsidiary Proposed Unit Development with Survey Sheet
- Simple Redevelopment Unit Plan
- Simple Redevelopment Unit Plan with Survey Sheet.
For more information, read the latest news and media releases.
