This article discusses who prepares strata minutes, explaining the secretary’s legal role and how strata managers usually handle drafting and circulation in practice.
Question: Whose job is it to write down and keep the minutes?
Answer: The strata manager, in most instances where they’re in attendance, would draft and circulate the minutes.
Section 43 states that it’s the secretary’s job.
Function of the secretary of the owner’s corporation
Functions of the secretary of the owners corporation include the following
- to prepare and distribute minutes of meetings of the owners corporation and submit a motion for confirmation of the minutes of any meeting of the owners corporation at the next such meeting,
It falls under the functions of the secretary. In practice, if you’ve got a strata manager, most strata managers would have drafting and circulating the minutes as part of their agreed services. The strata manager, in most instances where they’re in attendance, would draft and circulate the minutes.
This post appears in the May 2022 edition of The NSW Strata Magazine.
Rod Smith The Strata Collective E: rsmith@thestratacollective.com.au P: 02 9879 3547