JC – the NSW Department of Fair Trading’s website states that “at this stage it is anticipated that the new laws will commence on 1 July 2016”, and if common sense prevails then your current Secretary won’t again accept a nomination at the May 2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM).
As I alluded to in my other post, your Owners Corporation gets what its members vote for! So if you think that common sense may be uncommon at the next AGM, then start lobbying other Owners on the additional basis that as the current Secretary is not an Owner he has to be nominated by one, he then needs to accept that nomination, have it seconded by another Owner, and be then (re) elected by a majority vote of those present at the Meeting; so there’s three (3) prescribed “hoops” that he’d need to negotiate if he refuses to see that the writing’s on the wall (must be my day for idioms).