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I was digging around for more information on this when I discovered this website. Click on the link to find there's a whole movement out there – both at home and abroad – to make more apartment blocks smoke-free. And before anybody complains about persecution and your right to do what you want in your own home, remember, you need a 75 percent vote in a strata block to enact these by-laws. With 17 percent of people in Australia smoking, and apathy being what it is, it's no easy matter getting these by-laws over the line.
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This is so true Jimmy. It can be difficult to get such a by-law passed by special resolution at a general meeting.
Firstly, you would require a quorum at the meeting i.e at least one quarter of all lot owners must vote. Then you would require at least three-fourths of all lot owners to vote in favour of the motion before it can be passed.
But as you have said there is a lot of support out there for making apartment blocks smoke-free. Smoke-free living is now part of broader social and community standards.
Kind regards,
Simone Balsara
Lawyer
TEYS Lawyers
The Strata Law Experts
02 9562 6500simone@teyslawyers.com.au
https://www.teyslawyers.com.au