If a strata committee member is overseas, can they appoint a replacement to attend the committee meeting? If not, can the absent member attend via video conferencing while other committee members attend in person?
An “acting” member may be appointed in the absent committee member’s stead.
Yes. An “acting” member may be appointed in the absent committee member’s stead as per the extract of the Strata Schemes Management Act, 2015 (NSW) below with the consent of the strata committee. Alternatively, yes, if the meeting is convened via teleconferencing, the absent member may participate by that means.
34 Acting members of strata committee
- A member of a strata committee may, with the consent of the strata committee, appoint an owner or company nominee of a corporation that is an owner who is eligible to be a member to act in his or her place as a member at any meeting of the strata committee.
- The owner or company nominee appointed is, while so acting as a member, taken to be a member.
- An owner or company nominee of a corporation may be appointed whether or not he or she is already a member of the strata committee.
- If a person so appointed is a member of the strata committee, the person may, at any meeting of the strata committee, separately vote in the person’s capacity as such a member and on behalf of the member in whose place the person has been appointed to act.
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