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I stand corrected . We are pretty much restricted to NSW in Flat-Chat so I wasn't aware of this but it's interesting stuff and I wonder how it works.
I would still worry about people who couldn't be at general meetings but couldn't find someone whose proxy allocations hadn't been exhausted. But that maystill be preferable to 'blind' proxies given to office-bearers and strata managers by default.
I'm heading up to Queensland later this year for a strata conference so I'll try to find out. Best of luck with the campaign – our new minister may be ripe for an overhaul of strata so give it a go.
Meanwhile the Queensland government's fact sheet on general meetings goes a little further:
Restrictions on proxy use include:
- a person must not hold more than one proxy if there are less than 20 lots in the scheme
- a person must not hold proxies greater in number than 5 per cent of the lots if there are 20 or more lots in the scheme
- a body corporate manager or an associate of a body corporate manager cannot exercise a proxy
- a vote by proxy cannot be exercised on a motion to engage a person as a body corporate manager or a service contractor, or to authorise a person as a letting agent
- a vote by proxy cannot be exercised on a ballot for the election of a member of the committee
- a vote by proxy cannot be exercised if the owner submits a written vote on the motion.