Question: My strata committee and strata manager say I am unable to attend strata committee meetings as I am a proxy holder, not an owner. Is this correct?
Answer: Owners and corporate owners may attend strata committee meetings. However, there is no provision entitling their respective proxies to do so.
Schedule 2, Clause 13 of the Strata Schemes Management Act, 2015 (NSW) states:
13 Non-member owner may attend
An owner or, if the owner of a lot is a corporation, any company nominee of that corporation is entitled to attend a meeting but is not entitled to address the meeting unless authorised to do so by resolution of the strata committee.
Strictly speaking, therefore, owners and corporate owners may attend strata committee meetings. However, there is no provision entitling their respective proxies to do so.
This post appears in Strata News #758.
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