Right of reply

If your owners corporation, building or business is named in a notice, you can reply. It is free, it is published beside the notice everywhere the notice appears, and you do not need a lawyer to do it.

You are told first

Before a notice is published, the owners corporation named in it receives what was lodged, the publication date and how to reply. It has fourteen days. The notice is not public during that time.

What a reply is

One factual reply of about 150 words, in your own words. The register does not edit it, comment on it or rank it. The notice shows whether a reply has been received, and the reply travels with the notice for as long as the notice exists.

A reply is never too late

The fourteen days is how long publication waits. It is not how long you have. A reply that arrives later is published the moment it is received, beside the notice, and the notice's status changes to Responded (a reply has been received). The register records how and when the letter was sent. If it never reached you, report a problem: the reviewer sends the letter again and can pause the notice while you reply.

The other ways a notice ends

The person who lodged it marks it resolved or withdraws it.
The owners corporation marks it resolved by resolution.
A report about the notice is upheld, or a court order or a VCAT order requires its removal.

There is no fee to reply, and no fee to have a notice removed or corrected. The register offers no paid way to change what a notice shows.

How to reply

The reply form opens with the first notices. Until then, email register@pndr.au with the reference from your letter. If something in a notice is wrong, report a problem and a person acts on it within seven days.

Next step

Have a dispute with or about an owners corporation? Register your matter and a person will contact you within two business days. Want to know if a notice is lodged on a building? Watch it, free.