mailbox said.… At our recent EGM to elect a new committee, as no proxies were allowed, Powers of Attorney were provided by several people. So the smarties are one step ahead.
I’m not a Lawyer, but I would expect that as Sch.1 Cl.26(1) of the proposed new Act states that persons acting as a proxy must be appointed by “an instrument in the form prescribed by the regulations “ and the Regulation (2016) states that “an instrument appointing a proxy is to be in or to the effect of (my emphasis) Form 1 in Schedule 1 “, that a Power of Attorney would have the same effect at a General Meeting as the Form prescribed and would therefore come under the same limitations as given in Cl.26(7); viz one (1) instrument for Schemes of instruments equal to 5% of the total number of Lots in the scheme.
So the smarties aren’t one step ahead in my opinion, although it never ceases to amaze me how hard some many Strata dwellers try to bastardize what should be a democratic process.