Community Titles Act 2018

A scheme plan for a community titles scheme may contain an easement or restrictive covenant of a class specified in the regulations (a short form easement or restrictive covenant) that benefits or burdens land in the tier parcel as follows —

the type of easement or restrictive covenant must be identified using the description specified in the regulations;

for an easement, its location must be delineated in the manner specified in the regulations;

the lots and common property benefited and burdened by the easement or restrictive covenant must be identified in the manner specified in the regulations;

any other requirements specified in the regulations must be complied with.

The nature of a short form easement or restrictive covenant and the rights and liabilities under the easement or restrictive covenant are as specified in the regulations.

The liabilities specified in the regulations may include positive obligations.

A short form easement or restrictive covenant runs with the land and is binding —

to the extent that common property is benefited or burdened by the easement or restrictive covenant, on the owners, from time to time, of lots in the community titles scheme or in a community titles scheme that belongs to the scheme; and

to the extent that lots are benefited or burdened by the easement or restrictive covenant, on the owners, from time to time, of those lots.

A short form easement or restrictive covenant comes into force when the scheme plan, or an amendment of the scheme plan, for the community titles scheme containing the easement or the restrictive covenant is registered.

A short form easement or restrictive covenant is discharged by —

registration of an amendment of the scheme plan to give effect to the discharge; or

termination of the community titles scheme.

A short form easement or restrictive covenant has effect even if the lot benefited and the lot burdened have the same owner.

The Property Law Act 1969 section 121 does not apply to a short form easement or restrictive covenant.

This section does not derogate from any other method by which an easement or restrictive covenant may be created in a community titles scheme.