thanks Jimmy – OK I take your point – you need a big stick to encourage lethargic selfish people who repeatedly ignore reasonable requests to repair common property … (tho' as for bad agents representing bad owners – I might argue that may also be the democratic/collective wish of owners corporations comprising many overseas absent landlords who only watch their cashflow)
so if I understand your perspective, the sword of Damocles hanging over my head is only to serve as a reminder of responsibility for decisions affecting other people …
tell you want tho' – if ever any executive committee member is hit with such fines or jail time for failure to whatever – I predict a mass resignation from strata committees everywhere – and then governments will have to pick up the pieces – gee – why does no-one want to be a volunteer ?
You say I'm a worker getting paid in kind for improving my property.
I say I'm a unpaid volunteer – if/when I get paid in cash – something I have never received in 20 years of strata committee membership – then I may think of myself as a worker. Until then I'm going to be referring to myself as an unpaid part-time amateur volunteer – and I'll argue that in court all the way – it would be unfair and unreasonable, harsh and unconscionable to punish me for something I did in good faith as an unpaid part-time amateur volunteer.
I rest my case.