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@Kangaroo said:
Austman,

I’m not familiar with Vic and ACT laws.

But if you look at NSW doors, the sliding pane is always on the inside of the centre line, and the fixed pane is always on the outside of the centre line.

That’s if you want to get that pedantic.

In my experience, sliding doors get misaligned (and fail to lock) for two reasons:

1) The rollers are worn (or flat) and should be replaced. Cost $100-$200.

2) The whole building has become infinitesimally trapezoidal due to subsidence. This might be fixable by adjustment of the roller height. Cost $100-$200.

Thanks Kangaroo. Pedantic is often exactly what strata law is!

I just took a look a my own sliding external door.  It’s a well known brand, sold all over Australia.  The sliding door part is on the outside.

As for where a boundary “centre-point” actually lies in structures like doors and windows, it’s clearly defined in VIC: Subdivision (Registrar’s Requirements) Regulations 2011:

10 Use of buildings to define boundaries (c) Median (wall, window, door, balustrade):  lies along the mid point between exposed surfaces of any wall, window, door, and balustrade of the relevant part of a building.

So in VIC at least it’s the exposed surfaces that are the determining points, not any centre line.  So the boundary can vary even within a door or window structure!

Does anyone know if this is the same in the ACT?

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