Topic: No Pet By-Law – FLAT CHAT

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26/02/2017 at 1:32 pm #10937 Reply | Quote
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Our complex is in NSW and Strata Plan was registered in August 1997. Many years ago our Owners Corporation voted a No Animal By-Law, this resolved many problems and was again voted on about 8 years ago with the current By-Law that was registered, “Subject to Section 49 (4 ) of Strata Schemes Management Act of 1996 (guide or hearing dogs) an Owner or Occupier of a lot must not keep any animal on the Lot or Common Property” .

We have not added/deleted/changed any By-Laws since that time as what we have seems to work well for our complex of 64 units.

We have now been told we have to change this to comply with new By-Law 16 and select either option A or B of that By-Law. Is that correct? We were under the impression that as we had written our own by-laws that did not contradict and complied with “Model Rules” we would be able to keep our existing By-Laws.

Our Strata Manager says we will will need to change because if By-Law was challenged in the future our Strata Plan would loose at any NCAT hearing.

Any clarification or advice would be appreciated, this topic was raised at our last AGM in an informal manner (as it was not on Agenda) 57 of 64 units were represented in person (no proxies) and 55 voted to retain current By-Law.
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