› Flat Chat Strata Forum › Living in strata › Bye-bye to bad old by-laws? › Current Page
I agree 100%. When they come to the ‘Review By-laws’ Agenda Item at the next AGM, the owners will either move on to the next agenda item with the comment ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ or will set up a committee to review the by-laws which will not reach a consensus unless it is to adopt the new Model By-laws (Schedule 3 Strata Schemes Management Regulation 2016).
The upshot? The By-laws for every strata scheme which has not adopted a new set of By-laws will remain unchanged from the version introduced on 1 July 1961 when Strata Titles were introduced into NSW.
It’s not too late for the Strata Schemes Management Regulation to be amended so that the Agenda Item becomes –
The new Model By-laws (as per Schedule 3 of the Regulation) become the By-laws of the Strata Scheme in the place of the old Model By-laws (as per Schedule 2 of the 2015 Act), unless the owners pass a special resolution to retain the old Model By-laws.
This amendment would not upset 99% of the Changes of By-laws that I have seen and would serve to bring a much needed update to the 1961 era By-laws which are re-birthed as Schedule 1 By-laws in the 2015 Act.