Strata insurer CHU has prepared consumer fact sheets on legislative changes around aluminium composite panels in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

The panels were implicated in a fire at Melbourne’s Lacrosse apartments in November 2014 and the deadly blaze at London’s Grenfell Tower last year.

Strata owners will be affected differently in the three states, CHU says.

Owners’ corporations may be required to register their buildings or undertake rectification work because of the legislative changes.

NSW now requires buildings with external combustible cladding to be registered through an online portal, and in August the state banned panels with a core mass greater than 30% polyethylene in certain multi-storey buildings.

In Queensland owners’ corporations with buildings of three or more levels, built or renovated after January 1 1994, must submit a statutory declaration detailing the composition of external panels.

In Victoria a tripartite lending scheme to help affected owners pay for removal of dangerous cladding takes effect next month.