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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-07-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Strata Titles</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Strata Titles</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5389" kind="question">
        <name>Mr BOYER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-07-03" qonNum="1070">
            <name>Strata Titles</name>
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          <inserted>1070 <by role="member" id="5389">Mr BOYER (Wright)</by> (3 July 2019).  Which Government agency has responsibility to ensure compliance with the Strata Titles Act 1988 and in particular compliance of Strata corporations maintaining fidelity guarantee insurance?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4847" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.K. KNOLL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Transport</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Planning</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-07-03" qonNum="1070">
            <name>Strata Titles</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4847">The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning):</by>  I have been advised the following—</inserted>
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          <inserted>Responsibility for the Strata Titles Act 1988 (the Act) lies within the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI). This responsibility transferred from the Attorney-General's Department in August 2018.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Although responsibility for the Act falls within DPTI there is not currently a separate resource or body which regulates the Act in relation to requirements for strata corporations and compliance generally including the requirement to maintain fidelity guarantee insurance. </inserted>
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        <text id="20190723081163529216408a90001766">
          <inserted>Consistent with the approach previously taken by the Attorney-General's Department for many years, DPTI encourages all those who contact us regarding strata matters to seek their own legal advice and provide the details for the Legal Service Commissions' free services as a starting point for them. </inserted>
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