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AJM – so all your past commentary about existing window locks being in place, about the cost of the locks that your Owners Corporation will likely vote for, and the suitability of those from your perspective was just peripheral to the real issue, being that notwithstanding the law you just want to fully open the windows of your townhouse!
Well good luck with that, because the windows are not yours and are in fact the common property of your Owners Corporation, who save any change to the law between now and 2018 has the legal responsibility to comply with Sect 64A of the Act, the ability to seek the imposition of $550 penalties against you (yes, in multiples if necessary), and the authority to enter your townhouse for the purpose of installing window locking devices there of a type that’s compliant (of which the $5 item is one) whether you like it or not!
So perhaps you’d better give some thought as to how you’ll be able to reasonably comply with the law instead of wasting your energy on finding excuses to justify opposing it.