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So You've Joined a Body Corporate Committee. What Now?

A Plain-English Handbook for Queensland Committee Members: Duties, Spending Limits, By-Laws, Insurance and Disputes Explained

Your committee is calledBody corporate committee
The lawBody Corporate and Community Management Act 1997
Disputes go toBCCM Commissioner's Office

Why QLD needs its own book

Queensland committees work inside a regulation module that sets what the committee can decide alone and what has to go to the owners. Get that wrong and a decision can be challenged.

Your committee can only spend up to certain limits without a general meeting. Most new members have no idea where those limits sit.

What's inside

  • What the committee actually is, and what it can and cannot decide
  • The two spending limits, and what happens when a job goes over them
  • Your community management statement, regulation module and by-laws
  • The administrative fund and the sinking fund, and why the sinking fund forecast matters more than anything else on the agenda
  • Insurance, valuations and what to ask before renewal
  • Who the BCCM Commissioner's Office is, and how disputes and adjudication actually work
  • Contractors, quotes and checking a licence with the QBCC
  • Your first ninety days on the committee
  • How to conduct yourself on a committee, the part no legislation covers

Plain English throughout, with checklists, a glossary, worked conversations and ready-to-adapt wording for motions, minutes and contractor briefs. General information only, not legal advice.