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New Short-term Rental Accommodation Legislative Regime in NSW

Strata

Posted 28 June 2021

On 9 April 2021, the NSW government announced a new statewide policy for Short-Term Rental Accommodation (STRA) including the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Short-term Rental Accommo…

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Design & Building Practitioners Act 2020

Building Defects

Posted 17 June 2021

Introduction The Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (“Act”) greatly improves the prospects of owners corporations and lot owners in buildings with defects, with some retrospective effec…

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Mad about Magnesite?

Strata, Building Defects

Posted 24 October 2024

What is Magnesite Flooring? Magnesite flooring was commonly installed in Australia throughout the 1960’s and up until the early 1980’s. It involved the mixing of magnesium oxychloride cement wi…

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Don’t be a Nuisance

Strata

Posted 08 June 2021

What is "nuisance"? Nuisance is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as: “a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.” In NSW, private nuisance laws are generally derived from case law…

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Exploding Glass Panels – Building Defects

Building Defects

Posted 01 June 2021

The problem of nickel sulphide particles causing toughened glass panels to spontaneously shatter or explode without any mechanical damage being caused to them has been known about in expert glass arti…

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Can I use that Document too? – Not without copyright

Strata

Posted 20 May 2021

One great way to incur a large debt is to reuse a commercial document without the consent of the copyright owner. We see this regularly and it rarely ends well.…

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The What’s and Why’s of VOI’s

Strata, By-Laws

Posted 13 May 2021

There appears to a great deal of confusion regarding the verification of identity (VOI) process and in this factsheet we aim to clarify what VOI is all about.…

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Control of Unauthorised Parking – Common Sense Prevails

Strata

Posted 05 May 2021

Bannermans Lawyers’ clients recently achieved a great result in the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal (“Tribunal”), which we expect will bring to an end long standing parking problems.…

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