by hlsswp | Jun 25, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
If there is no “line item” in the Sinking Fund Budget for expenditure, can the funds be spent? A number of Committee Members, and Owners for that matter, are under the impression that for works to proceed a “line item” must be included in the sinking fund budget. The...
by Joe | May 25, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
Section 281 of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 allows for an Adjudicator to make orders that a person, they reasonably believe to be responsible for a contravention of the Act, either carry out required repairs to the damaged property, or...
by Joe | Apr 27, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
Section 160 of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 – Obligation of owners and occupiers to maintain, states: ‘The regulation module applying to a community titles scheme may impose obligations about the conditions in which lots included in the scheme...
by Joe | Mar 30, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
As a Strata Community Manager, one of the most regular application forms received from owners, occupants or property managers is for the keeping of a pet within a lot. This can then also flow down into complaints received if the animal is not being kept within the...
by Joe | Feb 26, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
What constitutes as emergency expenditure? Under section 243a of the body corporate and community management act 1997 it states; example of emergency circumstances – a burst water pipe the repair or replacement of which exceeds the body corporate committee’s...
by Joe | Jan 29, 2021 | Adjudicators Orders
More and more, when reviewing Adjudicators orders, we are seeing a trend of requests for motions to be invalidated is upheld – on the basis that the motions were not valid in accordance with the legislation. In November 2017, we wrote an article around how motions...
