Just out of curiosity, Jimmy, what part does our new strata commissioner play in the day to day running of a strata scheme? For instance, here are the new rules for strata committees:
- requiring committee members “to exercise [their] functions with honesty and fairness, with due care and diligence and for the benefit, as far as practicable, of the owners corporation”;
- requiring committee members “to comply with the [Act] and the regulations under the [Act]”;
- requiring committee members “to not behave in a way that unreasonably affects a person’s lawful use or enjoyment of a lot in the strata scheme or the common property”;
- requiring committee members to undertake training – committee members “who [fail] to complete the required training will cease to be a member of the committee”; and
- to lower the threshold to remove an office bearer at a general meeting to a simple majority (currently a special resolution).
Is it still up to owners to go through the drawn out process of mediation then NCAT to prove their SC is breaking some/all of the above?