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03/01/2016 at 12:14 pm
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susan – as you’re in NSW the Strata Schemes Management Act (1996) applies, where in response to your question Sect 76, and specifically Cl.4, sets out the requirements for raising a (special) levy in circumstances where a necessary expense cannot be met from either the Administration or Sinking Funds.
As you’ll read there, levies are determined by a majority vote (i.e. a simple resolution) by those owners in attendance at a General Meeting, including by proxy, so unless as Peter C suggested your Meeting was in some manner “irregular”, then the 5:4 vote in favour as taken there was legitimate.