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Our committee has set up a “committee email address” separate from our Strata manager's and advised all owners that this is the address for owners to contact the committee. Our Strata management cannot or do not supply access for viewing any of this correspondence. Are these emails BC records and should owners be able to access them?

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Experience suggests that records of communications (especially emails etc) between committee members and legal representatives are not regularly maintained by the body corporate.

Solicitors must however maintain such records along with, for example, court documents (including Statements of Claim, affidavits) and contemporaneous notes of conversations.

Records maintained by solicitors are ordinarily considered 'client records/documents' and upon request must be released to the client so long as they are not subject to a lien.

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Apart from the owner roll, voting papers, POAs and proxies, what other records/registers must the secretary or body corporate manager bring to the AGM?

May owners inspect/scrutinise these documents IMMEDIATELY before the AGM and if so, must an inspection fee be paid?

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I propose to inspect certain body corporate records and pay the prescribed inspection fee. The body corporate records are voluminous and I expect that inspection will take more than one day.

Is there anything preventing me from having a friend or fellow owners assist me?

Other than conducting the inspection during business hours, is there any limit on the length of time which could be imposed to conduct the inspection?

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I am a residential lot owner in a large body corporate complex in Brisbane. 63 floors are up-market residential units and 12 are operated by an international hotel chain.

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Is a committee member permitted to share financials with another lot owner as published to the committee by the strata manager - eg. the quarterly income and expenditure statement for admin and sinking accounts and the general ledger.

Are they regarded as private documents, available only to the committee?

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Is there is any advice to our Body Corporate regarding 120 lot owners who are on email, subsidising the additional Body Corporate mailing costs of the remaining 20 lot owners who are not on email?

Our Strata Manager has just charged $980 to print and mail out a 100pp document to the 20 lot owners who don’t use email.

There was a much lesser cost to email this same 100pp document as PDF to the other 120 lot owners.