@shb said:
Anyway,what i wrote was that its really silly to have legislation,but when one tries to implement it,everyone seems to develop cold feet!
I agree this can go in either direction. On one hand you can find a committee with insufficient resolve to enforce rules/by-laws/articles, leading gradually to a culture of disregard for the rules. On the other hand you can get a committee that is over-zealous about minor matters and that leads to contempt for the committee and is just as counter-productive. Getting the balance right is not always easy.
By way of example, our committee was sticking to its guns on what should have been a simple rule-infringement matter (ACT-speak for by-law breach). A unit owner had erected an unapproved structure that was easily reversible and utterly without any reasonable justification or redeeming features (there was an unreasonable justification). The matter was still continuing when we had a new committee comprising all the old committee plus one new person. The new guy threatened each committee member explicitly with public undermining through letterbox dropping and that we would each be personally facing cross-examination by a QC if we supported enforcement action. The rest of the EC out-voted him and we went ahead, successfully.