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We don’t appear to have any site specific by-laws. They all look pretty standard except for this one: “That the decision of the officers in the council would be executed only if unanimous, if they were not unanimous, and Extraordinary General Meeting would be held to resolve the matter“.
That by-law isn’t only redundant, it’s invalid. Schedule 2, Section 9 of the Act says this:
Voting at meetings
A motion put to a meeting is to be decided according to a majority of the number of the votes cast for and against the motion by the members present (other than any tenant member) …
You can’t have a by-law that supersedes the law, and the unanimity by-law gives a veto to any member of the committee.