Checking that names had been registered was a tactic suggested by the now-departed Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe as a way of clamping down on short-term letting.
But it’s one of these things that usually only becomes an issue when it’s a problem. If you have a problem with a tenant, you try to find out their name and if you don’t have a record, you ping the landlord for failure to notify.
Nine times out of ten you will find that the landlord or agent hasn’t notified the Owners Corp (because very few people do) so you are fairly safe in seeking a fine via the tribunal. Of course, first you would have to seek mediation at Fair Trading so it may be just more of a bureaucratic hassle than an actual penalty.
Having said that, I haven’t heard of anyone actually doing this, but the mechanism and the penalties are there if you want to go down that road.