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I don't know. How does it work in Queensland and Victoria where there is an obligation to enforce by-laws?
It would give individual owners – like the poor woman elsewhere on the is forum who is deafened by a teenager's drumming – grounds to take the EC to Fair trading or the CTTT – or even a proper court for damages.
I would imagine the statutory appointment of a strata manager to a strata plan that refused to or couldn't be bothered to enforce its by-laws wopuld be the ultimate sanction.
But, in reality, I'm betting that if owners realised that the by-laws had to be enforced – and no amount of schmoozing the EC could change that – they'd behave a bit better.
Right now, our by-laws are effectively optional if the Owners Corp and/or EC and/or strata manager can't be bothered to enforce them.