Regulatory Alerts2025-08-08 | RG-140RG 140 Strata schemes and management rights schemes
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issued this guide to explain how the Corporations Act 2001 applies to real property arrangements such as strata and community title schemes. It details conditional relief granted to operators and promoters of these schemes from specific managed investment, licensing, and disclosure requirements. The document also notes that applications for relief must be submitted through the ASIC Regulatory Portal from 27 July 2020.
Reissued 12 April 2017
This guide is for operators and promoters of properties that are, or are proposed to be, managed for investors.
It explains:
how the provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 (Corporations Act) relating to managed investment schemes apply to arrangements involving real property, including under strata or community title (e.g. units in a serviced apartment, hotel, motel or resort complex), and certain freehold titles or leasehold interests (referred to in this guide as ‘strata schemes’); and
the conditional relief we have given, in ASIC Corporations (Serviced Apartment and Like Schemes) Instrument 2016/869, to operators and promoters of strata schemes, including management rights schemes, from the managed investment, Australian financial services (AFS) licensing, product disclosure and hawking provisions of the Corporations Act.
Note: From 27 July 2020, applications for relief should be submitted through the ASIC Regulatory Portal . For more information, see how you apply for relief .
Download RG 140 (PDF 914 KB)