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The Community Alliance Party has committed to overturn unfair provisions contained in the Unit Titles Amendments Bill 2008. Brindabella Candidate James Sizer says the Community Alliance supports good policy, but this legislation falls well short of the mark. "It is yet another example of the Stanhope government's disrespect for communities. The Party will seek to overturn the amendments, with a view to removing clauses that discriminate against the tens of thousands of people who own or reside in a unit title property," said Mr Sizer "On that basis, we will seek to overturn the amendments, with a view to removing clauses that discriminate against the tens of thousands of people who own or reside in a unit title property," he said. In particular, elected Community Alliance MLAs would vote to remove requirements for owners of unit title properties to make direct financial contribution of the interest earned on their administrative funds to a proposed ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Other state and territory governments quite rightly fund their tribunals themselves. "Surely interest on a body corporate's money, which has been collected to maintain the building, belongs to the body corporate," said Mr Sizer. Mr Sizer says the Community Alliance would also remove the requirement for owners' corporations to place their administrative funds into a trust account with their agent. An owners corporation bank account is more than enough, and the government has not put forward a convincing case for changing the current arrangements. "The exposure draft of this Bill was launched in May, and provided for only 15 days for public comment. This is for a Bill that substantially changes the administrative arrangements for owners corporations," said Mr Sizer. "Affected people have approached us to say that the Bill includes discriminatory, inequitable and adversarial conditions, and it should not be passed in its current form," he said. According to Mr Sizer there is nothing about this Bill that meets the Community Alliance’s standards of genuine consultation, transparency and openness. If the Bill is passed into law, the Community Alliance will overturn it at the earliest opportunity. Contact: James Sizer 0416 147 880
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