Reply To: When does a by-law change become enforceable?

Found it:
Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 No 50.
141 Changes to and consolidation of by-laws
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(2) The change to the by-laws has no effect until—
(a) the owners corporation lodges a notice, in the approved form, with the Registrar General, and
(b) the Registrar-General makes an appropriate recording of the notice in the folio of the Register for the common property for the scheme

This is not the first time that the SM has manipulated the registration process to thwart Owners’ intentions – the last time they just ‘forgot’ to do the registration and it wasn’t noticed for two years.   I thought at the time that it was just incompetence, but it is now obvious that it was deliberate.  A warning to owners – double check that the SM registers the by-law changes approved at the GM!

If the Committee approves that application it will be necessary to go to the tribunal to declare the original by-law invalid on the grounds of what it purports to do, not that it was repealed.  Very annoying.

Thanks to all who replied.