@JimmyT said:
I am reliably informed that strata managers frequently apply for an extension of their statutory appointment on the grounds that the problem that required their appointment hasn’t gone away nor has it substantially diminished (i.e. the same people who caused the problem are still there). This is usually allowed as a matter of course. There would be no harm in telling your strata manager that you would like them to do this.
I wonder on which ground they do so. Because, section 162(7) sets out those who have standing to make an application under that section. The subsection does not specify that a strata managing agent has such standing.
I guess, then, an extension would be made on application under s 171. By ss (3): “any other person who is required by the original order to do or refrain from doing a specified act” can make an application under that section. I guess a currently appointed compulsory strata managing agent falls into the proposed class of persons under that subsection so as to enable it to make an application under that section.