Strata Titles Act 1985

The Governor may make regulations prescribing matters —

required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may provide for —

the manner and form of registering plans and documents; and

the fees to be paid for any procedure or function required or permitted to be done under this Act except fees for applications to the Tribunal; and

circumstances in which forms or other documents required under this Act to be lodged with the Registrar of Titles must be verified by statutory declaration made by such persons as may be prescribed; and

the preparation of plans and documents for the purposes of this Act; and

the plans and documents that under this Act may be lodged with the Registrar of Titles; and

a simplified procedure enabling the conversion of tenancies in common to strata titles, or of strata schemes to survey‑­strata schemes, whether by means of endorsements of transfers, consents and instructions as to the issue of certificates of title on the application for registration of the strata plan or by other means and providing for the consequential vesting of lots and encumbrances and registered interests in lots; and

the review by the Tribunal of a decision made under the regulations; and

additional requirements relating to the first annual general meeting of the strata company.

The fees fixed by the regulations for an application lodged with the Registrar of Titles may, without limitation, include a separate fee for lodgement of a scheme document or an amendment of a scheme document and, in such a case, the separate fee is payable when the document or amendment of the document is lodged (including in anticipation of the application).

The regulations may provide that contravention of a regulation is an offence and may provide for the offence to be punishable on conviction by a penalty not exceeding a fine of $3 000.

The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of an Act (an amending Act) amending this Act.

Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the amending Act or a later date.

To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date on which it is made, the provision does not operate so as —

to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication; or

to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.