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Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management Public Education Seminar Series 2017 Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal What you will get from tonight: Background terms Commissioners Office 101 Property Law

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Public Education Seminar Series 2017

Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal

Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management

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What you will get from tonight:

  • Background – terms
  • Commissioner’s Office 101
  • Property Law Review – now and proposed changes
  • Best practice recommendations
  • Questions, questions, questions
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How not to dry your washing

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Firstly - terminology

  • Act
  • Body corporate
  • Body corporate manager
  • Committee
  • Occupier
  • Onsite manager (service contractor / letting agent)
  • Owner
  • Regulation Module
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Commissioner’s Office – what it does

(What we) DO (What we) DON’T DO Information Service:

  • General legislative provisions
  • Phone and written (online enquiry)
  • Website and online services
  • Engagement (seminars)
  • Search of adjudicators’ orders
  • Rulings
  • Interpretation
  • Advocacy
  • Complaints-handling
  • BUGT Act information

Dispute Resolution Service:

  • Conciliation
  • Adjudication
  • Case management
  • Inspection and copies
  • Complex (contractual) disputes
  • Investigations (other than

adjudicator investigative functions)

  • Enforcement
  • Proactive compliance activities
  • Licensing
  • Policy and legislation
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Property Law Review: now and where to?

  • Towing
  • Pets
  • Smoking
  • Fines for by-law breaches
  • Termination of schemes
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Property Law Review: now and where to?

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Property Law Review: now and where to?

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Property Law Review: now and where to?

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Property Law Review: now and where to?

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Property Law Review: now and where to?

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Best practice – being pragmatic

  • Compromise, but also recognise the statutory standard -

reasonable interference

  • Never hit “REPLY ALL”
  • 24 hour rule
  • Talk (no really, talk)
  • Don’t be immediately aggressive
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Best practice – being pragmatic

  • Use factual and non-emotive correspondence
  • Get involved in your community
  • Bring solutions not just complaints
  • Remember: you can actually tow and you can

actually remove pets – with the right order

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To finish – resources and contacts

  • Commissioner’s Office: 1800 060 119 and

www.qld.gov.au/bodycorporate

  • Adjudicator’s orders: www.austlii.edu.au
  • Hynes Legal – 07 3193 0500 –

frank.higginson@hyneslegal.com.au

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