Part 5 Names of strata and community schemes

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68Name of strata or community scheme#

(1) The name of a strata or community scheme is the name shown on the registered plan.

(2) The name of the scheme is to be –

(a) the street number and address of the building followed by the name of the city, suburb, town or locality in which the building is situated; or

(b) a name approved by the Recorder.

(3) The Recorder may refuse to register a plan if the name of the scheme shown on the plan –

(a) is the same as the name of the scheme shown on another registered plan; or

(b) is the same as a name reserved under this Part for a person other than the applicant; or

(d) is, in the Recorder's opinion, undesirable.

69Reservation of name#

(1) The Recorder may, on application, reserve a name stated in the application as the name of a proposed strata or community scheme.

(2) The Recorder must reserve the name if satisfied that the name is acceptable for registration under this Act.

(3) The Recorder must maintain a register (to be known as the "Reserved Names Register") for the purposes of this section.

(4) Subject to any regulation about how the register is to be kept, the register may be kept wholly or partly –

(a) on paper, microfilm or another medium approved by the Recorder; or

(b) by means of a device for storing and processing information approved by the Recorder.

(5) The Recorder may, with the written permission of the State Archivist given in accordance with section 20(2)(b) of the Archives Act 1983, sell, destroy or otherwise dispose of records, or any class of documents, relating to proceedings under this Part that the Recorder considers to be of no value for the purposes of the register.

(6) Before selling or disposing of a record, the Recorder must mark it as no longer valid.

70Period of reservation#

(1) The reservation of a name is for an initial period of 2 years and may be extended by the Recorder for an additional period of one year.

(2) The extension may be granted on an application made within the initial period by the person for whom the name is reserved.

(3) A reservation lapses if –

(a) the person for whose benefit the name was reserved withdraws the reservation; or

(b) a plan is registered in which the reserved name is given to the scheme.

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