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There’s a whole raft of strata law changes coming into force in NSW – and that’s just the start with another wave due later this year.
[See the full post at: Strata law changes land in wave after wave]
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The capital works fund plan initially requires a surveyor to check the correctness, but it still doesn’t require them to be updated and checked when problems with the building are found. Our one is basically a work of fiction, even though the building defects have been known for over 10 years. The plan has never included remediation. Their is no record of the capital works plan not being followed, one is the external painting because it would be like putting lipstick on a pig.
A problem I have as a strata-owner and as a NSW citizen with these waves of changes is that it is hard to follow them on the NSW Legislation website (BTW, a website I think is terrific: thanks, PCO).
The principal Act, Strata Schemes Management Act 2015, assented to 5 November 2015, is online where it should be, and ostensibly in the current version: legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/htm/inforce/current/act-2015-050. But this ‘current’ published version does not, as far as I can see, include subsequent amendments that have been assented to since.
Among these are those made by the Strata Legislation Amendment Bill 2023, assented to on 11 December 2023, and presumably now an ‘Act’: online at legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/htm/bill/409fbb23-b3bd-4899-a94a-ad6bc978ac11. (Phew, I hope I have typed that correctly.) I cannot see the amendments made to the principal Act by this Bill/Act in December 2023 having been (yet) included in the current online version of the Act (as per URL in previous paragraph).
And then we have the One Big Beautiful Bill, known in New South Wales as the Strata Schemes Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2025, which has had its 3 readings in the Legislative Assembly but only its 1st reading in the Legislative Council (on 12 February 2026). At http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/Profiles/strata-schemes-legislation-amendment-miscellaneous-bill-2025.aspx. Not yet thru the Parliament or assented to by the monarch (ahem, Governor), its provisions are swirling around in the conversation as if dead-set dunk.
Frankly, I find Fair Trading’s reporting of the change process as clear and clarifying as as a trumpian thought-bubble and the staged/timed implementation as orderly as a posting on X or Social Truth (not that I have ever seen such, but I hear hearsay).