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Re Jimmy-T writing that the current BCA requirements on balustrades does not apply unless . . . . . .
Surely this has been overturned by the Doherty case decided by the Appeals Panel in September, 2021?
Congratulations Whale. When reading the contributions to a questions I always look for your input which most times hits the nail on the head.
The smoke alarms are not connected to a fire board in the building, they are connected to a near by light fitting within each lot.
Jimmy is correct in that there is not much difference between paying directly or by way of levy. However, in the past 6 months we have had an unusually large number of long term owners selling so have some new owners who I am sure would not be happy to pay for something that was installed when they bought.
I take the comments made about ongoing maintenance to be an important consideration. As the OC were required to install these smoke alarms I will be pushing for the OC to do the maintenance and to fund these from the levies.
Under the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996, Schedule 2, Part 2, Clause 31 (1) (a), an annual general meeting of an owners corporation must be held in each year on a date not earlier than one month before and not later than one month after each anniversary of the first annual general meeting.
So that is very clear, one month either side of the anniversary of the first annual general meeting. Maybe if this were pointed out to the members of the EC, they would act. Not sure what penalty would apply to the members of the EC or to the OC for non-compliance.
Our GMs are all held on site, normally starting at 6 PM. Fortunately we have the space for meetings. In the few changes in SM over past 15 years, it has been an important consideration to have the meetings outside normal office hours. No doubt this was taken into account in determining the base fee.
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