The insurance company has requested our strata scheme number — where do I find this?

What’s in a name…

For some strata schemes, the developer goes to a great deal of creative effort and imagination to come up with a luxurious sounding name befitting of the hanging gardens of Babylon. Other times, the strata scheme can be unimaginatively described as “2 Smith Street Perth”.

The scheme name is shown on the front page of the “Strata Plan”, now known as the “Scheme Plan”.

Each strata scheme also has a unique number allocated to it by Landgate.

The strata scheme name and number form the identity of the strata scheme EG:

The owners of “[scheme name + scheme type + scheme number]” under section 14(2) of the Act, e.g. Pretty Ponds Strata Scheme 12345.

Whenever referring to the strata scheme (a legal entity in its own right) the full name and number must be used.

14. Strata Company

1. On registration of a strata titles scheme, a strata company is established for the strata titles scheme.
2. The name of the strata company is “The Owners of [the name of the scheme] (survey-strata scheme/strata scheme [according to the type of strata titles scheme] [the reference number allocated to the scheme by the Registrar of Titles])”.
3. The name of the strata titles scheme is the name stated in the scheme notice.
4. The address for service of the strata company is the address for service stated in the scheme notice.
5. A strata company — 
   1. is a body corporate; and
   2. has perpetual succession; and
   3. is capable of suing and being sued in its own name; and
   4. has, subject to this Act, all the powers of a natural person that are capable of being exercised by a body corporate.
6. The governing body of a strata company is the council of the strata company.
7. A strata company may have a common seal, but it does not have to do so.
8. A strata company is comprised of the owners for the time being of the lots in the strata titles scheme (who are the members of the strata company).