The NSW Government is working to increase confidence in the NSW building industry by creating a new foundation for construction, by looking at improvement of laws and consumers/workers protection.

How to Have Your Say!

To have your say on the proposed building laws reform in NSW you can:

• Complete the all-in-one survey which allows you to skip through all topics to those that are of interest to you or;
• If you are only interested in a single topic, you may complete one or more of the 7 individual survey topics
• You may also make a submission which allows you to give detailed feedback or respond directly to the questions in the regulatory impact statements

Deadline for Your Feedback

To provide feedback please Friday 25 November 2022.

For more information, please refer to the NSW Government here.

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For all strata law advice including by-laws, building defects and levy collections contact our specialist NSW and Sydney strata lawyers here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.

On 10 June 2020, the New South Wales Government made new laws regulating the construction of apartment buildings.

Those new building defect laws commenced on 1 September 2020 and will have a significant impact on all owners corporations and the strata industry.

In this paper we discuss the new laws and how they will impact the strata industry including:

• Occupation Certificates
• Stop Work Orders
• Rectification Orders
• Delegation of Powers
• Retrospectivity

Read the full paper here: New Laws that will have a significant impact on the Strata Industry.

For all NSW strata legal, by-law, building defect and levy collection advice contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.

New building bond and building defect laws commence today, 1 July 2020.

The new laws are part of the NSW Government’s promise to “get tough” on building defects and form part of a suite of new laws that have recently been introduced to combat the spate of poorly built strata buildings.

These new laws will strengthen the rights of owners corporations to make claims against builders, developers and other to have defects repaired or obtain compensation to cover the cost of repairing defects.

That Act introduces new laws with respect to the rectification of building defects in new strata buildings. In this article we take a look at those new laws:

• The New Laws and the Buildings They Apply to
• Changing Due Dates for Payment of Building Bonds
• Consequences for Failing to Provide a Building Bond and Increased Penalties
• Offences for Developers Providing False/Misleading Information
• Using Building Bonds to Pay Other Costs
• Extending  the Time Frame for Building Bond Claims
• Cancelling a Building Bond
• Recovering of the Building Bond from Developers
• Investigation and Enforcement Powers
• Protection of Building Inspectors from Personal Liability
• Forcing Developers to Provide Information to Inspectors

Here we outline the new laws New Building Bond and Defect Laws.

For NSW strata legal, building defects and levy collection advice please contact us here or call 02 9562 1266, we’re happy to assist.