Queensland Consolidated Acts

BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 230

230 Structure of arrangements

(1) This chapter provides for the establishment of the office of commissioner for body corporate and community management for providing education and information services and managing the dispute resolution process.

(2) This chapter also provides for the appointment of dispute resolution officers to settle individual disputes.

(3) The main elements of the dispute resolution process provided for in this chapter are—

• applications to the commissioner

• dispute resolution recommendations, especially at the preliminary stage of the dispute resolution process

• mediation, conciliation and adjudication

• orders, including interim orders, by adjudicators

• enforcement of orders through a Magistrates Court

• appeals to the appeal tribunal on questions of law.