Fair Trading has (re)republished (ie. Jan 2017) their ‘Strata Living’ guide since the new legislation. It is noteworthy that the section on Short-term letting (page 28) has actually been changed to ADD a paragraph.
https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/about_us/publications/ft045.pdf
Added paragraph :
“Strata laws prevent an owners corporation restricting an owner from letting their lot, including short-term letting. The only way shortterm letting can be restricted is by council planning regulations.”
If this is how FT apply the law(can we say it is ‘their own’ law ?) in plain english, then how is it that lawyers are prone to play with their own interpretations, and OCs get creative in ‘making up’ their own by-laws to contravene FT’s own interpretation ?
Why should it be a case that someone has to take it to the NCAT to ‘see what happens…’ ?