The requirements for a unit title application are set out in the Unit Titles Act 2001 and the Unit Titles Regulation 2001. The combined effect of this legislation is that a unit titles application must include certain documentation (similar to a Development Application), such as a unit title assessment report.

The contents for the unit titles assessment report are prescribed by the Regulation. The Regulation also prescribes accompanying material for a unit titles assessment report. The legislation did not afford any discretion to the planning and land authority to waive the provision of all required documents.

Lodgement of the Unit Title application for a completed development was often delayed because the certificate of occupancy and use and the operational acceptance for works on public unleased land had not yet been obtained.

Reforms to the unit title application process will make it possible to lodge a Unit Title application without the following 'required material':

  1. the most recent certificate of occupancy and use—
    1. for each unit in the parcel and
    2. for any structure within the boundaries of the common property.
  2. if a work approval for the development is required under the Public Unleased Land Act 2013, section 19 (Approval to carry out work on public unleased land)—a copy of the approval.

The 'required material' may now be lodged with the unit title application and if not lodged must be provided by the applicant as further information to accompany the Unit Title application prior to approval of the Unit Title being granted.