Practice directions for body corporate disputes

Practice directions are guides written by the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management to help explain the rules for body corporate disputes and the steps you must follow.

Practice directions give more information about the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997. They do not replace the Act or the Commissioner’s ability to decide what is required for a particular dispute.

You can now download all 37 Practice directions (PDs) in one document.

You can also download the practice directions by category or individually:

General—relating to most disputes:

• Evidence of a dispute (PD 1)
• Internal dispute resolution (PD 23)
• Standing of parties (PD 22)
• Representation (PD 2)
• Communication and document management (PD 3)
• Electronic communication (PD 33)
• Fees and charges for dispute resolution applications (PD 4)
• False and misleading information or documents (PD 26)
• Material submitted in relation to an application (PD 30)
• Legal and other assistance (PD 29)
• Privacy (PD 37)

Disputes—details the requirements for specific types of disputes:

• By-law enforcement applications (PD 6)
• Administrator appointments (PD 17)
• Emergency expenditure applications (PD 18)
• Expeditable applications (PD 19)
• Debt disputes (PD 24)
• Complex disputes (PD 25)
• Approval of alternative insurance (PD 28)
• Dismissal of applications (PD 27)
• Disputing a motion which requires a resolution without dissent, on the basis of unreasonable opposition (PD 34)
• Parties residing or travelling internationally (PD 35)

Conciliation—details the requirements for conciliation:

• Conciliation process (PD 7)
• Conciliation applications (PD 8)
• Matters not appropriate for conciliation (PD 9)
• Preparing for conciliation (PD 10)
• Representation and attendance at conciliation sessions (PD 11)
• Admissibility of information from conciliation (PD 12)
• Rescheduling a conciliation session (PD 36)

Adjudication—details the requirements for adjudication:

• Adjudication process (PD 13)
• Adjudication applications (PD 14)
• Application time limits (PD 15)
• Interim order applications (PD 16)
• Specialist adjudication (PD 20)
• Adjudicator’s orders (PD 21)
• Consent orders (PD 31)
• Supplementary orders (PD 32)
• Parties’ costs (PD 5)

More information

• Conciliation for body corporate disputes
• Adjudication for body corporate disputes
• Enforcing adjudicators' orders