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I don’t think the agent becoming a company nominee makes any difference to them being excluded from election to the strata committee. It would be different if the agent was a part-owner of the company that owned the property, but they would still have to have their name on the strata roll to be counted as an owner in order to side-step the restrictions:
The Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 defines an owner thus:
Owner of a lot in a strata scheme means:
(a) except as provided by paragraph (b) or (c), each person for the time being recorded in the Register as entitled to an estate in fee simple in the lot (in the case of a freehold strata scheme) or as entitled to a leasehold estate in the lot (in the case of a leasehold strata scheme), or
(b) except as provided by paragraph (c), each person whose name is entered on the strata roll in accordance with section 178 as being entitled to an estate in fee simple in the lot (in the case of a freehold strata scheme) or as entitled to a leasehold estate in the lot (in the case of a leasehold strata scheme), or
(c) each person who is taken by section 43 (1) of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 to be the owner of the lot.
For the sake of clarity, Section 43 of the Strata Schemes Development Act says this:
43 Powers of lessor if no current lease
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a lessor of a leasehold strata scheme who is entitled to immediate possession of a lot in the scheme because of the determination of a lease is taken to be the owner of the lot. (2) Subsection (1) does not confer or impose on the lessor a right or obligation created by a lease, sublease, mortgage, charge or covenant charge to which a former owner was subject.