Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order brings the Unit Titles Act 2010 (the Act) into force on 20 June 2011. The Act replaces the Unit Titles Act 1972. The purpose of the Act is to provide a legal framework for the ownership and management of land and associated buildings and facilities on a socially and economically sustainable basis by communities of individual owners and, in particular,—

• to allow for the subdivision of land and buildings into unit title developments; and

• to create bodies corporate to operate and manage unit title developments; and

• to establish a flexible and responsive regime for the governance of unit title developments; and

• to protect the integrity of the development as a whole.