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Residents have submitted the required 25% of owners necessary to call an EGM. The date and venue have been determined and necessary papers including motions to be considered forwarded to owners.

What happens if prior to the meeting date when one or more of the owners who originally requested that the meeting occur withdraw their support? This would mean that there is no longer 25% support. Does the 25% requirement only apply to calling the meeting? Does the meeting still occur or is it now void and not required?

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An owner has obtained the required 25% of owners to call an EGM about a particular issue. The meeting date has been set.

The motions to be considered have been circulated. The legislation states that the information provided to voters can be accompanied by an Explanatory Statement as long as it is no longer than 300 words. The statement has been provided but it includes a link to an attachment that is itself more than 500 words.

Is the attachment part of the 300 word limit and does it have to be circulated to voters?

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AGM Our Strata Manager says that no one except the chair is allowed to speak at an AGM.

I believe, in accordance with meeting procedures that a Motion is read out by the mover of the motion who is then allowed to speak for the motion. The chair should then ask if there are any owners who wish to speak for or against the motion.

Is this correct?

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We would be interested in how a group of same issue motions would look if you had various quotations and colour considerations for something like a roof repair.

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Is a motion submitted by a lot owner the same as a lot owner asking for a decision to be made by the committee? Can a motion be a question seeking clarification of the committee's progress on implementation of a previous action agreed to at a committee meeting?

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At our AGM the chairman held the view that a Committee motion should be ruled out of order although a majority of committee members disagreed with that view, as did the strata manager.

Nevertheless the chairperson felt obliged to put the motion to the AGM and the motion was resolved in the affirmative.

The motion was out of order as it contravened a by-law.

Is the Committee obliged to comply with the motion even though compliance would contravene a by-law? What alternative action should be taken?

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I am the chairperson of a BCC. We have an AGM coming up. Our Body Corporate Managers have received a motion from one of our Lot's but the name on the motion is not the same as per the Qld Land Titles Registry. Does this make the motion invalid?