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isydowner – not sure whether to take that Lawyer thing as a compliment or not, although I was once coerced into working over a couple of years with a team of Lawyers who were drafting some state environmental legislation, my role was to merely to ensure that their legalese reflected both the intent of and the science behind the document. Maybe some of their phraseology stuck in my head; anyway, enough of that!
Your problem is really a strange one, but as the Owners Corporation (O/C) argued that the replacement of the air conditioner was done under Sect 62, I assume that it’s Common Property and that your balcony is part of your lot; right?
IF that’s the case, and for the time being ignoring the fact that the O/C placed the air conditioner on your balcony and accessed your lot, I’d have argued that relocating it anywhere comprises a change or alteration to or the erection of a new structure on the Common Property of the Plan, that should have been approved in advance at a General Meeting under the provisions of Sect 65(A).
Before I and others get into your options to address the problem, could you please come back with a little more information, including on the argument that you took to the CTTT, whether my assumptions about the ownership of the air conditioner and your balcony are correct, how and in what forum the works were approved, and (if you know) why the new air conditioner wasn’t positioned where the original one was?