Again I’ll assume that RL is in NSW, where the Legislation that enables Councils to issue a Fire Safety Schedule as part of its Development Consent (DC) commenced in July 1988, so Multi-Unit Developments that were completed prior to that date are exempt from the requirement to undertake and Annual Fire Safety Inspection.
RL – The Fire Safety Schedule (FSS) that I’ve referred to contains the list of items to be annually inspected, so it stands to reason that if a strata building didn’t have a FSS at the time of Council’s DC, and there’ve been no Building Applications since lodged at the Plan where a FSS may be issued, and there’ve been no incidents where Fire & Rescue issued a FSS as part of a Fire Control Order, then there’s nothing to annually tick-off and report upon to Council – that’s why the link that tharra provided also says “A fire safety schedule is only applicable if any of the above occurred after 1988”.
So assuming no FSS, the advice provided by your first Strata Manager was absolutely correct, which doesn’t mean that your Owners Corporation (O/C) doesn’t cast a collective eye around its Common Property to check for fire-related hazards or even that it engages an experienced person to do that; but that’s prudent not compulsory action, and the outcome is not reportable outside of the O/C.
Be aware that some Strata Managers are guilt-tripping O/Cs into having fire safety audits undertaken, so if yours decides to go down that path, in the absence of a FSS it would be well advised to first obtain the Contractor’s Scope-of-Work (i.e. what precisely are they checking in the absence of a FSS) as well as a firm price.