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NSW: Strata & Community Title Update 2025 – Part 1 – commissions and disclosures

Law change

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This is part one of a series of six bite sized blogs on the changes to our NSW strata and community title legislation this year. I will be posting a blog a week for the next six weeks each discussing a different component of the changes.

Before I talk about the latest changes, those in the Strata Schemes Legislation Amendment Act 2025 which was assented to on 2 March 2025, it would be remiss not to first summarise the changes, which unless otherwise stated below, took effect on 3 February 2025 under the Strata Schemes Managing Agent Legislation Amendment Act 2024. These were that strata managers:

In addition to the previous definition of a connected person in s7 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015, a person under the changes is now also connected with another person if the first person is a trustee of a trust for which the first person is a beneficiary or where the first person is the trustee of a trust where the second person or their spouse, de facto partner or child is a beneficiary: s62(1A) of the Strata Schemes Management Regulations 2016.

Penalties for the offences have increased across the board and took effect on 8 November 2024.

Although references are made throughout to changes to the SSMA, these changes also affect the Community Land Management Act 2021 (NSW) (“CLMA”).

Allison Benson Kerin Benson Lawyers E: allison@kerinbensonlawyers.com.au P: 02 4032 7990

This is general information and should not be considered to be legal advice. You should obtain legal advice specific to your individual situation.

This post appears in Strata News #737.

This article has been republished with permission from the author and first appeared on the Thoughts from a Strata Lawyer… website.

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