Years ago when certain members of our owners corporation (OC) were making life difficult for its committee members, I asked our managing agent what would happen if nobody was prepared to accept nomination to be on the committee and so the AGM failed to elect a committee. She said that she would still have a management contract so she would continue to act as our agent. However, every time there was a decision that required instruction from the OC, there would not be a committee that could give her instructions on behalf of the OC so she would have to call a general meeting to give her instructions. She expected that it would not take long for enough OC members to get sick of having general meetings for every little thing that they would get their act together and elect a committee.

If the three people named were the only nominees for the committee, then there would have been no need for an election and so they would form the committee.  This could be challenged if someone want to nominate at the meeting but couldn’t do so because there was no meeting. Alternatively, if paper nominations in excess of the number of seats were permitted and a “paper” vote was allowed, that could and should be challenged, because you can’t have a strata committee election using pre-meeting ballots.