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I’m not expert in meeting procedures but I would have thought you needed to have Standing Orders in place for a point of order to have any weight. I keep thinking we should have a set of standing orders available for Owners Corps to adopt but I wouldn’t know where to start.
Our owners corp at its first AGM in 1976 passed a resolution that meetings would be conducted according to Joske-“The law and procedure at meetings in Australi and New Zealand”. This is a little book about meeting procedures that has been around for a very long time and has been through various editions. My 90 year old father-in-law recently gave me a copy of the second edition that he got as an accounting student in his 20s.
Ideally, that should have been adopted as a By-law rather than just a resolution at the first meeting. Still, it has been occasionally useful for our chair to have a copy on hand that he can wave and quote when he says that he will accept an amendment to a motion or whatever.
I think there are various other more modern books along similar lines. To the extent that the Strata Act relevant in your state does not specify meeting procedures, owners could adopt Articles/By-laws/Rules to follow some such guide at its meetings. It would give a more objective standard by which the chair could assert some authority to control a debate or some owner to complain that a meeting was not properly conducted. Taking some well accepted reference is probable better than reinventing the wheel via a set of novel standing orders.