…. and remember that a special resolution, where ≥75% of those entitled to vote do so in favour as determined from their collective units of entitlement, is all that is needed for an Owners Corporation (O/C) to at a General Meeting grant consent to renovations of the types mentioned, and that a Special By-Law (SBL) is only additionally required if the renovations involve any part of the Common Property and the O/C wants to shift its responsibility for the maintenance and repair of such areas to the Owner who’s renovating and to subsequent Owners of that Lot.
Examples of the above would be:
1) A free-standing kitchen renovation where items such as tools and materials would be moving around the common property, and where the O/C would need to be assured that contractors were licensed and insured, but where the O/C would not normally be responsible for maintaining and repairing any items comprising the renovations. In this case the O/C would specially resolve to grant its consent.
2) A bathroom renovation involving new waterproofing, and new tiles on common walls and on the floor (incl. a shower recess), where information on licenses and insurance will of course again be required, and as the Lot Owner would be disturbing the waterproof membranes, and would likely be removing the average quality tiles etc that were fixed as part of the original construction and be replacing those with more expensive / up-market products, the O/C may wish to consent and to concurrently resolve to make a SBL to make Owner/s of the renovated Lot responsible for the maintenance and repair of all items comprising the renovations. It’s worth noting that such as SBL would need to be put before the same General Meeting, and that the renovating Owner would need to put in writing their agreement to that SBL in advance of a vote being taken; no prior agreement=no consent.
As both JimmyT and PeterC have observed, it’s quite common for O/C’s to specially resolve to Register a generic SBL covering renovations including Conditions, and thereby enable its Executive Committee to grant Consent/s on behalf of the O/C to renovations of any types that fit within the “envelope” of that SBL.