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Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011
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119 Unit title certificates
(1) An eligible person for a unit or the common property in a units plan
may request the owners corporation give the person—
(a) a certificate stating information about the unit or the common
property suitable for disclosure to a potential buyer (a unit title
sale certificate); or
(b) a certificate updating information in the unit title sale certificate
(a unit title sale update certificate); or
(c) a certificate stating information about the unit or the common
property suitable for disclosure to a potential tenant (a unit title
rental certificate).
(2) However, an eligible person may only request a unit title sale update
certificate within 4 months after the day a unit title sale certificate is
given to the person.
(3) The owners corporation must, within the required period after the day
the request is received, give the person the requested certificate.
(4) A unit title rental certificate expires 5 years after the day it is given to
the person.
(5) The Minister may determine information that must be included in any
of the following (the determined information):
(a) a unit title sale certificate;
(b) a unit title sale update certificate;
(c) a unit title rental certificate.
(6) A request under this section must be in writing and accompanied by
a fee fixed by the owners corporation of not more than an amount
determined by the Minister.
(7) A determination under subsection (5) or (6) is a disallowable
instrument.
(8) In this section:
eligible person, for a unit, includes a person who enters into a contract
for sale of the unit.
Note Eligible person—see the dictionary.
required period means—
(a) for a unit title sale certificate or unit title sale update
certificate—14 days; and
(b) for a unit title rental certificate—
(i) if the owners corporation has the determined
information—14 days; and
(ii) if the owners corporation does not have the determined
information—6 weeks.
tenant—see the Residential Tenancies Act 1997, section 6.