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[Anonymous]

When a SCM is convened by the SM (using deligated powers) with no attendance required and a voting paper attached to the meeting notice, how is a quorum reached?

For example, if only 2 voting papers are received and there are 7 members can the motions be resolved from just 2 voting forms?

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[Jimmy-T]

I don’t know if anyone has ever examined this in any great detail.  There’s a massive flaw in electronic meetings, in that ordinary owners obviously can’t “attend” yet the law says they should be allowed to attend strata committee meetings.  I assume (danger, danger!) that there could be retrospectivity in this, in so far as decisions taken at a virtual meeting of the committee where only two members voted (suggesting a lack of quorum) could be challenged at Fair Trading and/or NCAT.

This is something that could and should be sorted out in the regulations.

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I had thought that the strata committee must  resolve to allow for the meeting format under schedule 2 that states
<h4>10 Manner of voting</h4>

(1) A vote at a meeting by a person entitled to vote must be cast in person unless the strata committee, by resolution, determines that a vote may be cast by some other specified means.

So without that resolution (which I assume is a seperate motion to allow for a vote form to be used), would that mean the meeting is potentially invalid or I am not understanding this wording correctly?

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[Jimmy-T]

So what?  Why would you assume the proper procedures hadn’t been followed at an earlier date?  You said yourself that a form had gone out. Arguing for its own sake, and finding every possible complication in otherwise simple matters, is not what this Forum is about.

Enough!

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