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Daphne,
I have forgotten your details. Could you please refresh my memory:
1) What year was your scheme registered?
2) How many years have you lived there?
3) Are you on the EC, or get on well with them, or at loggerheads with them?
It is often better to join the EC (if “allowed”), work from within, lead by example, instead of creating a confrontation. This note, and others of yours, sounds like you are stockpiling arms and ammunition for a hostile takeover.
How do you know your scheme has a By-Law requiring a notice board if you don’t already have a copy of the By-Laws?
As far as I know, you don’t just ask the LPI for a copy of your By-Laws. First you ask for a Plan Image ($12.15 from their online shop). Then you go through the Dealings listed on that and you ask for a copy of each dealing ($12.15 each), and from memory you don’t know until after you’ve paid your money whether the dealing was a Change of By-Laws or not.
Fire Safety Certificates and Annual Fire Safety Statements are only necessary for buildings constructed after the BCA came into effect in 1992, or buildings which have subsequently come to the attention of the Council or the Fire Brigade.
https://www.survivalsolutions.com.au/files/Resource/25_afss-&-cert.pdf
Unless you’re seriously concerned about your fire risk, I would think long and hard about getting the Council involved. As JT said, once they are involved, they can demand the whole box and dice, and that won’t endear you to other owners. It would probably be best to suggest the OC obtain a fire risk assessment from an independent fire safety company.
