murphy – re the Agency Agreement, weren’t you satisfied with the responses that you received on the last occasion that you posed the same question?
An Agency Agreement is with the Owners Corporation, so unless you’re the Secretary of the Executive Committee or an authorised representative of the Owners Corporation, then you as an individual Owner don’t sign the Agency Agreement and so you can’t be “coerced”.
Although I don’t know what question you put to the Department of Fair Trading, as stated in the previous paragraph, the advice that you’ve cited is incorrect.
Providing Owners with a Preliminary Notice of an upcoming General Meeting is optional, but if your question relates to the Agenda Papers, then Owners must receive that a minimum 14 days in advance.