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Unit Titles Act 2001
154Provisional building damage order—application
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154 Provisional building damage order—application
(a) after the registration of a units plan, a building on the parcel is
damaged or destroyed, unless the damage or destruction
happens in the course of the demolition or development of the
building; and
(b) the territory planning authority has given—
(i) a development approval under the Planning Act 2023,
chapter 7 for a development consisting of the reinstatement
or elimination of any unit or building (or part of a unit or
building) on the parcel (a unit redevelopment); or
(ii) if the unit redevelopment is exempt from the requirement
to obtain development approval under the Planning
Act 2023, chapter 7—a certificate under subsection (4);
and
(c) a cancellation authority or cancellation order for the units plan
is not in force; and
(d) an application for a cancellation authority or cancellation order
for the units plan is not pending.
(2) If this section applies, the owners corporation authorised by an
ordinary resolution, or a unit owner, may apply to the ACAT for an
order (a provisional building damage order) approving a building
damage scheme incorporating the unit redevelopment.
(3) The application must be accompanied by—
(a) the proposed building damage scheme; and
(b) as the case requires—
(i) a copy of the development approval mentioned in
subsection (1) (b) (i), certified by the territory planning
authority as a true copy; or
(ii) a copy of the certificate mentioned in
subsection (1) (b) (ii).
(4) On application by the applicant for the provisional damage order, if
the territory planning authority is satisfied that approval under this
Act or any other relevant territory law for the unit redevelopment
would still have been given if the proposals for the subdivision of the
parcel under this Act, or any other relevant development proposals,
had shown the units plan as it is proposed to be altered by the unit
redevelopment, the authority must give the applicant a certificate to
that effect.