Can Joint Owners of One Unit Both Serve on the Committee?

QLD

Committee & Governance

This article discusses whether joint owners body corporate committee members can both serve under current legislation and how nomination rules have become more flexible.

With the new legislation, is it possible for joint owners of one unit to be on the committee? Previously, you could get someone else in the complex to nominate you. They effectively gave you the right to take the option to become a committee member. Is this still the case?

The short answer is yes. It is the same.

There's a little bit of confusion around how this works. The short answer is yes. It is the same.

That old rule about needing someone else to nominate you to go on the committee really related to when there was no one else, or when you're trying to get committee members onto the committee, because there was a section in there for co-owners that said only one co-owner can be on the committee, even if those co-owners owned multiple lots.

The only change that's happened is more flexibility to allow that co-owner to get on the committee. It's not necessarily a restriction. It's open it up more than anything else. The only change is, if there is a co-owner, those co-owners that own more than one lot, they can both nominate individually and they don't need that other person to nominate them. But the other person can still nominate them if that's how they want to play it out.

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Published: 27 Mar 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.

Todd has a focus on achieving practical and commercial results for his clients and understands the market in which bodies corporate operate within.

Todd also provides body corporate managers, and other industry stakeholders, with presentations and training on matters affecting the body corporate industry.