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Thanks Mr Strata,
The work that I'm referring to is not on Common Property, but is rather on a water pipe that only services the Lot concerned, and which is within an internal wall of that Lot.
I've tried to unsuccessfully to contact the Proprietor, and the Property Manager whose tenant identified the problem has shown no interest since I informed him that the problem is not the O/C's responsibility.
Even though I dislike the word “power”, in response to the question ….
What power does an owners corporation have to carry out work and recover costs?
Sect. 63(4) of the SCMA states:
4) Work that is duty of owner or occupier to carry out, an owners corporation may carry out work that is required to be carried out by a person who is the owner, mortgagee or covenant chargee in possession, lessee (or, in the case of a leasehold strata scheme, sublessee) or occupier of a lot in order to remedy a breach of a duty imposed by Chapter 4 and may recover the cost of the work from that person.
So as the leak is now impacting the Common Property and the Lot below, I was contemplating the use of the above extract from SCMA as a last resort.
What do you and others think?