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In the ACT, the Tribunal can give orders that money be paid or that a person must do or not do some thing. However, it can’t enforce its own orders. Instead, that function falls to the Magistrates Court.
I have experienced that once. An owner added an unapproved structure to her unit. We have a (somewhat customised) rule in place that includes that unit owners must not alter the unit without permission. The committee first spoke to her and then wrote to her about removing the structure. After some back and forth about why she thought it was reasonable and did not need approval and why we disagreed and would not approve it, the committee issued a ‘rules infringement notice’ (aka ‘notice to comply’ in other places). She did not comply and the Tribunal gave the orders we sought, which were that she must comply with the rules infringement notice by a certain date. The date passed and she had not complied.
At the Tribunal I asked what we could do in the event that we got the orders we sought but the unit owner did not comply with those orders. The Tribunal advised that we would then need to seek an enforcement order from the Magistrates Court because the Tribunal could not enforce its own orders.
The unit owner tried to use the Magistrates Court as an opportunity to have the whole matter reconsidered. The magistrate shut that down very quickly. He was only interested to know if there had been some reason why the unit owner had been unable to comply with the Tribunal order. He emphasised that the facts of the matter had all been determined already by the Tribunal. He gave orders that the OC could enter the unit area to do that which the unit owner had been ordered to do by the Tribunal but had failed to do. In effect that meant the committee could appoint an appropriate tradesperson as its representative to enter the unit and remove the structure.
At the 11th hour, the unit owner finally got her own tradesperson to remove the structure.