The Law Handbook 2024

1240 Index short-stay arrangement complaints 607 VCAT, applications to 606, 607 financial management 597–8 flammable cladding issues 543 functions 594–7 inactive 543 inspection of records 596 insurance 600–1 individual 600 insurable risk 600–1 public liability 600 reinstatement and replacement 600 legal proceedings 594, 595 legislation relating to 593 liability of members 597 lot entitlement, determining 593–4 lot liability 593–4 lot owners’ duties and rights 605–6 maintenance plans and funds 598 managers 603–5 dismissing 605 registered 603–4 reporting requirements 604 tier 1 owners corporation 604 volunteer 603 meetings 601–3 AGM 601 committees 602–3 minutes 602 office holders 601 voting 595, 602 model rules 596 National Credit Code, application of 421 owners to abide by rules of 543 parking disputes 608 planning permits 609 polls and ballots 595 powers and functions 594–7 record keeping 596 repairs and maintenance 598–9 fences 599 funds 598 implied easements 599 lifts 599 plan 598 rental property 486 water leaks 599 windowsills and eaves 599 resolutions 595 committees 602–3 interim special resolutions 602 rules 595–6 buyers investigating 543 owners to abide by 543 short-stay arrangements, complaints about 607 sinking/reserve fund 598 statutory rights and obligations 593 strata title 542 taxed as company 597 tier 1 to 5 classifications 598 two-lot subdivisions 597, 598 VCAT cases 23 voting 595, 602 ballots and polls 595 corporate lot owners 602 interim special resolutions 602 power of attorney 602 proxies 602 water meters 608 what is 593 P Paid Parental Leave see parental leave parallel importation 761, 775 parentage adopted child 287 adoption consent where not established 287 artificially conceived children 278, 280–2, 283–5 birth certificate 286 child support obligations 269, 285, 288 corroboration of evidence 285 declaration of 279, 284, 285 establishing paternity 284–5 evidence of 284–5 Family Law Act 282 foreign birth certificate 286 presumptions 269, 278, 283–4 registration of birth and 284, 285, 286 sperm donor 278, 280–2, 286–7 Status of Children Act 285 substitute parentage order 279, 282, 287, 288 surrogacy 279–80, 285 parentage order 279 parental responsibility order 279 registration of child 286–7 substitute parentage order 279, 282, 287, 288 testing 266, 269, 284, 285 unknown father 286 parental leave 331–2 after 1 July 2023 332 before 1 July 2023 331 COVID-19 Disaster Payments and 332 Dad and Partner Pay 331–2, 337 employment conditions 1056, 1063 Paid Parental Leave scheme 331–2 portability 336 stillborn child 332 taxation 337, 338 parental responsibility see children and young people parenting orders see children and young people Parenting Payment 320–1 declared program participants 326 eligibility 320–1 Employment Pathway Plan 321 mutual obligations 321, 324–7 non-payment periods 327 participation failures 325–7 partnered 320, 321 Pensioner Concession Card 335 portability 336 principal carer 321 rates 321 Rent Assistance 329 single 320, 321 taxation 338 parents with disability 788–9 advocacy services 789, 794 Positive Powerful Parents Victoria 794 park rangers offences against 1050 parking fine disputes 15 parking permit, disability 781 Parliament-made law 2–3, 10 finding 10–11 overruling judge-made law 4, 5 Parliaments 5–6 legislative powers 5 ministers 6 parole 225 Adult Parole Board 225, 238 discretionary powers 225 Serious Violent Offender or Sexual Offender (SVOSO) Division 225 challenging decision of Board 225 community safety paramount 225 interstate transfer of prisoner on 228 name change 309 offences committed on 32, 225 serious offenders 225 voting by person on 234 young offenders 45 Youth Parole Board 45 Part IX debt agreement 383–5 acts of bankruptcy 383, 385 advantages 383 alternative to bankruptcy 383 appointment of administrator 384 complaints against administrators 384 disadvantages 383 eligibility 384 ending 385 procedure 384–5 proposal 385 termination 385 act of bankruptcy 383, 385 variation 385 Part X insolvency agreements 385–6 Partner Allowance end of 314 passing off 770–1 Australian Consumer Law 771 common law trade marks 770 domain names 740, 770 goodwill damaged 770 misrepresentation 770, 771 reputation in Australia 770–1 trade marks and 770–1 passports bankrupt, surrendering 378 change of name 309, 312 paternity see parentage paternity leave see parental leave pawnbrokers 450 buy-back arrangements 450 claim to residual proceeds of sale 450 criminal conviction and employment as 248 definition 450 legislation regulating 450 licensing 729 National Credit Code exclusion 424, 450 pawn tickets 450 record keeping 450 redemption of goods 450 registration 450 unjust transactions 450