Under NSW strata law (SSMA Section 32 [a]) a building manager may not be elected to a strata committee. A building manager may also be referred to as a caretaker, according to section 66 of the Act (below)
In short, your caretaker shouldn’t be on the committee in the first place unless they are doing the work on a purely voluntary basis. Also, if they are being paid, your strata manager should be asked to explain why they haven’t picked up on this.
However, if your caretaker is doing this work as an unpaid hobby (bless him), all you need is to make sure all your invoices etc are properly accounted for and that your strata insurance covers him for injuries.
66 Building managers
(1) A “building manager” is a person who assists in exercising any one or more of the following functions of the owners corporation:
(a) managing common property,
(b) controlling the use of common property by persons other than the owners and occupiers of lots,
(c) maintaining and repairing common property.
(2) However, a person is not a building manager if the person exercises those functions only on a voluntary or casual basis or as a member of the strata committee.
(3) A person may be both a building manager and an on-site residential property manager.
(4) A building manager may be a person who is entitled to exclusive possession (whether or not jointly with any other person) of a lot or common property in a strata scheme.
(5) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to be a building manager for a strata scheme if the person meets the description of a building manager set out in this section, regardless of whether the title given to the person’s position is building manager, caretaker, resident manager or any other title.