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UNIT TITLES ACT 1975 - SECT 27

Body corporate – units plan other than building development plan

    (1)     On and after the registration of a units plan, including a units plan relating to the first completed stage of a condominium development or on the issuing under the Real Property (Unit Titles) Act 1975 of the first freehold title to land in an estate development, there is constituted a body corporate under the name "The Proprietors –Units Plan No. ", the number to be included in the name being the number allotted to the units plan by the Registrar-General on its registration.

    (2)     The members of the body corporate are the persons who are proprietors, for the time being, of the units including, in the case of a corporation relating to a condominium development or estate development, the units in each completed stage of the condominium development or estate development.

    (3)     However, if a new body corporate ( the new corporation ) is constituted under this Act because of a subdivision of a part of the parcel to which the units plan relates:

        (a)     the new corporation must be regarded as a member of the body corporate ( the parent corporation ) constituted on the registration of the units plan; and

        (b)     the proprietors of the units resulting from the subdivision must not be regarded as members of the parent corporation.

    (4)     If subsection (3) applies, a reference in this Part to a proprietor constituting the parent corporation:

        (a)     includes a reference to the new corporation; and

        (b)     does not include a reference to the proprietors mentioned in subsection (3)(b).

    (5)     In this section:

        (a)     a reference to a units plan does not include a reference to a building development plan; and

        (b)     a reference to a body corporate does not include a reference to a building management corporation.



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