Queensland Consolidated Acts

BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 311

311 Body corporate to be taken to be owner of parcel for certain Acts etc.

(1) The body corporate for a community titles scheme is taken to be the owner of the scheme land for the following Acts—

†¢ Land Act 1994

†¢ Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011 .

(2) For applying subsection (1) to a layered arrangement of community titles schemes, the body corporate for the principal scheme for the arrangement, and not the bodies corporate for the community titles schemes that are subsidiary schemes for the principal scheme, is taken to be the owner of scheme land for the principal scheme.

(3) However, for the Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011 , owners of adjoining lots included in a community titles scheme are taken to be the owners of adjoining land.

Examples—

A layered arrangement of community titles schemes consists of a principal scheme (
"scheme A" ) which in turn includes 2 basic schemes (
"scheme B" and
"scheme C" ), and, of course, the common property for scheme A.

• If a matter under the Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011 concerns a boundary between scheme land for scheme A and a lot (
"lot X" ) that is not scheme land for scheme A or another community titles scheme, the owners are the body corporate for scheme A and the registered owner of lot X.

• If a matter under the Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011 concerns a boundary between scheme land for scheme B and scheme land for scheme C, the owners are the body corporate for scheme B and the body corporate for scheme C. This will apply even if the length of boundary that is of concern happens also to be the boundary between a lot included in scheme B and a lot included in scheme C.

• If a matter under the Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011 concerns a boundary between a lot (
"lot Y" ) included in scheme B and another lot (
"lot Z" ) included in scheme B, the owners are the owner of lot Y and the owner of lot Z.