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These links below indicate that Vic Owners are legally able to get access to mails and addresses for a payment set at some multiple of a fee unit.
dated October 2024
The Saint-John Decision has just been released which confirms that an Owners Corporation has the legal obligation to provide a lot owner all emails and phone numbers of lot owners upon request, subject to the lot owner paying for a reasonable fee set in accordance with section 146(2) of the OC Act and r.12 of the Regulations.
in V1 – Sept 2024 of the document you mentioned: SCA Vic USER GUIDE FOR OWNERS CORPORATIONS CONTRACT OF APPOINTMENT page 6.
it states:
Phone numbers and email addresses are considered Owners Corporation records and are required to be transferred on change of management. They are not viewable by all lot owners as part of Owners Corporation records.
Maybe V2 will correct this but it is not very “professional” to have incorrect information in an official guide.
In the non-strata world if a professional body puts out incorrect information, there are consequences.
In the strata world it just seems that an owner has to lawyer up and decide if it is worth it.
This post is an edited combination of two posts from OptusJo – any errors are therefore mine – JimmyT