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The first thing to do is check where the boundaries of the Lot are on the Strata Plan, and the year that your Plan was registered.
See the following document for the preferred interpretation that Fair Trading uses to deal with these issues:
The OC is responsible for doors, windows and walls on to the courtyard (unless the plan was registered before 1 July 1974 – refer to the registered strata plan).
From the Memorandum the door to the courtyard is referred to merely as a “door”. There is a separate classification for an “Entrance Door”. I may be wrong but it would appear that if Fair Trading wanted to classify the door to the courtyard as an “entrance door” then they would have used this wording in the information provided in the section explaining the responsibility for “Balcony and Courtyards”.
In addition, the term “Entrance Door” is described separately in the Memorandum. Note that this is singular and not plural. This suggests that a Lot only has one Entrance Door. In my opinion, if more than one Entrance Door was contemplated as being possible on a Lot then the plural of “door” (i.e. “doors”) would have been used. Based on this interpretation the door to the courtyard would not be an Entrance Door therefore any deadlock on it would be an Owner responsibility.
Security doors, other than those installed by an owner after
registration of the strata plan, are the OC’s responsibility to maintain.
It is clear that the door that you have mentioned is not the original door. It is therefore the Lot owner’s responsibility to maintain and repair.