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I’ve tried to call a meeting but then U10 says “I don’t think we need a meeting…” and so nothing happens!
Section 39 of the act says that the committee of a small scheme must hold a meeting within 14 days if requested by two-thirds of the committee.
In your situation, that means three people. However, if you can’t get two more members to agree to join you in calling the meeting, you’re not going to get very far anyway.
39 Convening meetings
(1) The secretary of the owners corporation may convene a meeting of the strata committee at any time.
(2) The secretary of the owners corporation, or any other member of the strata committee, must convene a meeting of the committee if requested to do so by at least one-third of the members of the committee.
(3) The meeting must be held—
(a) in the case of a large strata scheme, not later than 28 days after the request is made, or
(b) in the case of any other strata scheme, not later than 14 days after the request is made.
Don’t worry about the politics – just write a note saying that under Section 39 of the Strata Schemes Management Act you would like a meeting to be called within (say) 21 days and get two other owners to co-sign it. If the self-appointed chair takes offence, tell him you asked politely before and you always get rebuffed. And reassure him (and the other owners) that there’s no great political moves afoot – you would just rather discuss matters face-to-face every so often.