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Note this was lifted chapter and verse from Fair Trading’s website, see https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-property/strata-and-community-living/strata-schemes/by-laws-in-your-strata-scheme in their reference to “nuisance”.
I stand corrected, withdraw and apologise. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that definition of nuisance meaning anything other than something that can cause actual harm. Having said that, Fair Trading’s web pages are notoriously unreliable and we’ve had occasion in the past to tell people just to ignore specific advice until the corrected it. The Act certainly doesn’t refer to noise as a nuisance (but it does refer to smoke).
There is another issue here: at what point does an owners corp start invoking chapter and verse of the law? Sometimes it’s more effective just to say stop doing that bad thing, although on othr occasions you might need to remind people that there are laws by which they are expected to abide. I suppose it depends on the issue and the people involved.
The problem with invoking the laws that you have suggested is that there is nothing in the specific wording that clearly tells the miscreant exactly where they have gone wrong. That could lead to endless discussion and debate whereas a simple “Move your stuff or lose it” note, citing the Unrecovered Goods Act, spells out exactly what can be done with the stuff.
Finally, please do me a favour and stop referring to yourself in the third person in replies. We can see who’s responding at the top of each post.