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Struggler, thanks for your interest. You say ‘exactly’ but you’d realize to elaborate here would take a very long time.
Our standard by-laws, which were chucked out by special resolution, were one of the bog-standard sets of the model by-laws in the Act.
The new standard by-laws voted in by special resolution are very similar and supposed to be more pointed, simpler and easier to enforce. (Noise, vehicles, common property etc.) In fact, they appear to be over-embellished making them more convoluted than the old ones.
Additionally, there were a couple of special by-laws we have here which were revised and a couple added to cover us against naughty renovations done without permission. If our old, existing by-laws were displayed, known, followed and enforced these would not have been needed.
In my view, all a big waste of money considering we’ll probably have to go again after the ‘overhaul’ by Mr Roberts and the EC and strata manager won’t enforce them anyway.
None of our EC have bothered to come to grips with the strata system, they’ve been done-over by ambulance-chasing strata lawyers (Mr Roberts’ expression) and the strata manager takes bread buttered on both sides.
Oh yes, how could I forget (?) there’s extraordinary proxy-harvesting keeping out more sensible owners who could be on the EC.