How many motions can a strata owner submit each year?

QLD

Rules & Bylaws

Committee & Governance

On sending motions into meetings, how many motions can be sent by the one owner per year? Where can I see the legislation detailing this?

Six in a rolling 12 month period

You've got six in a rolling 12 month period. So if you send six in March of 2021, you have to wait till April in 2022, before you can submit another one.

The body corporate can also accept extra submissions, but they don't have to. So it's really important, I suppose for an owner to either pace themselves or really think about which motions are important to themselves before they start submitting them to the committee.

It's a rolling 12 month period, so you can space it out and do one every two months if you really wanted. I think a lot of thought should be put in before you start burning through your limit.

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Published: 14 Apr 2026

Last Updated: 7 Jul 2026

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Todd Garsden

Mahoneys

Todd is an experienced property lawyer who heads up Mahoneys body corporate team.

Todd specialises in body corporate law and predominantly acts for bodies corporate, body corporate managers and lot owners on all matters affecting bodies corporate.

Todd is an active member of the Strata Community Association (Qld). In 2019 he was appointed to the Strata Community Association (Qld) legislation committee and assists in making submissions on behalf of the Strata Community Association (Qld) on issues such as legislative reform in body corporate law.

As Todd is also a body corporate committee member, he understands the day to day requirements of administering a body corporate.

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