Topic: No Animal By Law and NCAT – Any hope? – FLAT CHAT

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30/07/2018 at 11:02 am #11800 Reply | Quote
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STRATA SCHEMES MANAGEMENT REGULATION 2016 – SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 2 – By-laws for pre-1996 strata schemes (Clause 35)

16 Keeping of animals –
Subject to section 49(4) of the Act, an owner or occupier of a residential lot must not keep
any animal on the lot of common property.

Hi all, I bought a unit in NSW with the above bylaw, the original bylaw option A was repealed 6 years ago and replaced with the above. I will put a motion forward at the next AGM to change this to a ‘pets with approval’ option with many attractive conditions. I expect more than 25% will object and expect to take it to NCAT. What hope do I have that an adjudicator will consider this bylaw to be harsh, unreasonable and oppressive? Under this bylaw I can’t even keep a goldfish. Have there been precedents I can quote? Is there a database I can search to find any to present at mediation? I knew what I was buying into but I hoped in time that the feeling would change in this climate of modernised bylaws. Thanks in advance.
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Reply To: Reply #30122 in No Animal By Law and NCAT – Any hope?

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