Question: Why has the legislation made it made it easy to remove a committee member? Who does this help?
Answer: It helps in schemes that are highly political.
It helps in schemes that are highly political. You could get a voting block of 26 people or 26 unit entitlements, and they’d block any special resolution. You get active strata committee members getting proxies and preventing themselves from being thrown off the committee. The new legislation makes it less of a restriction to be able to remove people. But it still has to be the majority of people do not want that committee member on the committee. We’re not getting rid of a majority rights, we just getting rid of special majority, if you like, or a special resolution. It would help remove lazy committee members or those who are not assisting the owners corporation.
This post appears in Strata News #678.
Allison Benson
Kerin Benson Lawyers
E: allison@kerinbensonlawyers.com.au
P: 02 4032 7990

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