31Parliamentary approval of certain amendments of registered strata plan and reinstatement schemes

31 Parliamentary approval of certain amendments of registered strata plan and reinstatement schemes

(1)  Despite any provision of the Strata Titles Act 1998  –

(a) a variation, to the registered strata plan, that –

(i) materially affects, whether vertically, horizontally or otherwise, the dimensions of the Theatre Royal lot*;* or

(ii) changes the unit entitlement of any lots on the registered strata plan –

may not be registered under the Strata Titles Act 1998 unless the proposed variation has been approved by both Houses of Parliament; and

(b) a proposed reinstatement scheme that is, under section 32 of the Strata Titles Act 1998 , proposed to be approved in respect of the site may not be approved under that Act unless the scheme has been approved by both Houses of Parliament.

(2)  The Minister may lay before both Houses of Parliament a copy of –

(a) a proposed variation of the registered strata plan; or

(b) a proposed reinstatement scheme to which subsection (1)(b) relates.

(3)  For the purposes of this section, a House of Parliament is taken to have approved a proposed variation of the registered strata plan, or a proposed reinstatement scheme, if a copy of the proposed variation or scheme has been laid on the table of that House and –

(a) the proposed variation or scheme is approved by that House; or

(b) by the expiration of 5 sitting-days after the copy of the proposed variation or scheme was laid on the table of that House –

(i) no notice has been given of a motion to disallow the proposed variation or scheme; or

(ii) if such notice has been given, the notice has been withdrawn or the motion has been negatived; or

(c) if a notice of a motion to disallow the proposed variation or scheme has been given but not withdrawn or negatived during that period of 5 sitting-days, the notice is withdrawn or the motion is negatived after the expiration of that period.