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ccgirl – under the provisions of the NSW Strata Schemes Management Act (1996) Owners wishing to make changes to the Common Property are required to first seek the written consent of their Owners Corporation (O/C), who if it agrees will include conditions, usually including one making that Owner and all subsequent Owners of the Lot concerned responsible for all on-going maintenance/repairs and replacements of the changed item/s.
The converse position, perhaps unreasonably held, is that if no consent is sought prior to an Owner making a change to the Common Property, then by default the O/C remains responsible for the changed item/s, just as it would be if it had itself made those changes.
Television and Pay-TV cabling is a little more complicated.
It is usual (although not exclusively so) for that cabling and the in-line signal amplifiers (often called the “backbone) to run from the antenna head or node, through the roof cavity or the space between the ceiling of one Lot and the floor of the Lot above, and for the individual feeder cables connected to it (often called “droppers”) to pass down inside or up through Lots’ vertical walls or floor to connect to the wall plate/s.
So taking likely scenarios into consideration where the cabling and wall plate have been changed without the O/C’s consent:
• the “backbone” is the O/C’s responsibility no matter what;
• IF the “dropper” is within a perimeter / outside wall of the Lot then it too is the O/C’s responsibility;
• IF the “dropper” is within an internal / dividing wall of your Lot then it’s your responsibility.
I don’t understand why tiles and carpets would need to be removed, but floor tiles originally fitted when your building was first occupied are the O/C’s responsibility, those fitted since, and carpets are your responsibility.
There are a few other scenarios such as if your O/C has a Special By-Law in place covering the responsibility for service cabling such as for television, pay-tv, data, and telephone, but without further investigation / information from you I can’t comment further. Perhaps post again when matters become more official.