Wolf – OK… so the By-Law that the O/C and/or its Strata Manager provided to the person who conducted your Strata Inspection / Report and upon which your Solicitor, the Fair Trading Adjudicator, and the NCAT Member relied is not Registered, and is therefore of no legal standing.
Therefore it’s Model By-Law 16 of the NSW Strata Schemes Management Act (SCMA) that applies, and I would have thought that, together with the incorrect information/wording provided by the Owners Corporation, would be grounds for the whole procedure of you seeking consent to be again commenced.
As you’ve already received support from all the other Owners concerning the Committee’s attempts to invoke a no pets option, how do you think you’d go convincing enough of them to join you in requisitioning the Secretary to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting to consider a new Motion to grant consent to your pet, that of course you’d have to prepare and support with evidence in the context of the Member’s comments (as illogical as they were); even conditionally while it proves itself suitable?
Under Cl. 31(3) of the SCMA you’d need a total 25% in support by unit entitlement; including you.
I don’t know what Jimmy’s working on, but as I’m all optioned-out and this post is becoming epic, this will be all from me; good luck.