BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 198
Effect of scheme change on liability for charges etc.
BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 198
Effect of scheme change on liability for charges etc.
198 Effect of scheme change on liability for charges etc.
(1) If a liability to pay charges, levies, rates or taxes on a lot included in
a community titles scheme arises and, before the amount of the liability is
paid, the scheme is changed so that the lot or part of the lot is incorporated
with another lot included in, or common property for, the scheme, the
liability is enforceable jointly and severally against—
(a) the person who
was the owner of the lot when the liability arose; and
(b) if the lot or part
of the lot is incorporated with another lot included in the scheme—the owner
of the other lot; and
(c) if the lot or part of the lot is incorporated with
common property—the body corporate.
(3) This section does not apply to a rate or charge owing to a local
government, to the extent that it is inconsistent with arrangements in force
under the Local Government Act 2009and the local laws of the local
government.
(4) Also, this section does not apply to an amount owing to MEDQ
to the extent this section is inconsistent with the
Economic Development Act 2012.