Body Corporate and Community Management Regulations – Consultation on draft legislation
Consultation updates
Consultation closing date was extended to 1 December 2019.
New Body Corporate and Community Management Regulations commenced 1 March 2021.
The community and stakeholders were invited to have your say on proposed reforms to regulations under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (the BCCM Act).
Most bodies corporate in Queensland are community titles schemes registered under the BCCM Act. The Act permits the creation and operation of community titles schemes in Queensland. There are also 5 regulation modules, which set out more detailed laws that bodies corporate must follow.
Learn more about the current regulation modules and which regulation module applies to your community titles scheme.
What is changing
New regulation modules are being prepared.
The new regulation modules will include reforms to streamline and modernise body corporate procedures, reduce body corporate costs and enhance protections for unit owners. A summary of the reforms to each regulation module is provided with the consultation draft of the regulation module below.
The reforms to the regulation modules have been developed after extensive stakeholder and community consultation about the recommendations of the review of property law in Queensland that was conducted by the Commercial and Property Law Research Centre of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The changes included in the consultation drafts relate primarily to QUT’s recommendations about body corporate procedural issues, which were contained their report, Final recommendations: Procedural Issues under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (PDF, 1.4MB).
The proposed reforms will be included in the regulation module that relates to specified two-lot schemes through an amendment regulation at the same time that the other 4 modules are replaced.
The Body Corporate and Community Management Regulation 2008 prescribes fees for the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997. The Body Corporate and Community Management Regulation 2019 (BCCM Regulation 2019) has been prepared to replace it. The replacement regulation contains the same fees as the existing regulation, but expands the power of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management to waive particular fees under the Act.
As these are consultation drafts, the drafts may not reflect the final form of the regulations and could change. Please note, the draft regulations do not include transitional provisions; they are currently being developed.
Consultation drafts
Standard module
- Consultation draft of the Body Corporate and Community Management (Standard Module) Regulation 2019
- Comparison document showing differences from Body Corporate and Community Management (Standard Module) Regulation 2008
- Summary of proposed reform—Standard module
Accommodation module
- Consultation draft of the Body Corporate and Community Management (Accommodation Module) Regulation 2019
- Comparison document showing differences from Body Corporate and Community Management (Accommodation Module) Regulation 2008
- Summary of proposed reforms—Accommodation module
Commercial module
- Consultation draft of the Body Corporate and Community Management (Commercial Module) Regulation 2019
- Comparison document showing differences from Body Corporate and Community Management (Commercial Module) Regulation 2008
- Summary of proposed reforms—Commercial module
Small schemes module
- Consultation draft of the Body Corporate and Community Management (Small Schemes Module) Regulation 2019
- Comparison document showing differences from Body Corporate and Community Management (Small Schemes Module) Regulation 2008
- Summary of proposed reforms—Small Schemes Module
Specified two-lot schemes module
- Consultation draft of the Body Corporate and Community Management (Specified Two-lot Schemes Module) Amendment Regulation 2019
- Indicative draft of the amended Body Corporate and Community Management (Small Schemes Module) Regulation 2011
- Comparison document showing differences from pre-amendment Body Corporate and Community Management (Specified Two-lot Schemes Module) 2011
- Summary of proposed reforms—Specified Two-lot Schemes Module
BCCM Regulation 2019
Consultation draft of the Body Corporate and Community Management Regulation 2019
How to have your say
This consultation closed on 1 December 2019.