This article discusses strata by-laws registration requirements in Queensland and confirms that valid by-laws must be registered with the Titles Office.
Question: When a body Corporate makes rules and bylaws for a strata complex, do those bylaws have to be registered with any official body?
Our Strata block is twenty three years old, and after some research, I have found our bylaws have never been registered with council or anyone else. They were simply made up by the committee of the time.
Consequently we have visitor car parks that don’t really exist, pets rules which ban everything (though one committee member has a cat), fences which have never been approved by the council, and who knows what else.
When the original body Corp makes the rules and bylaws for the complex, do those bylaws have to be registered with any official body?
Answer: Yes – all by-laws are registered with the Titles Office (not the council). I suspect if some searches of the Titles Office’s records are undertaken, a copy of the scheme’s registered by-laws can be obtained.
This post appears in Strata News #519.
Todd Garsden
Mahoneys
E: tgarsden@mahoneys.com.au
P: 07 3007 3753
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