Are Queensland Body Corporate Committee Members Legally Required to Enforce Bylaws and When Should Police Step In?

We're talking about two separate issues here. Not everything which happens in a body corporate is a body corporate issue to address. There's this idea that everything that occurs within the boundaries of a complex is up to the committee to address. Some things are not for the committee to manage, and some are a police matter, as with your example of teenagers running wild.

I've had this question before in different forms. The first thing to do is engage with the parents or guardians and find out what is happening here. In extreme circumstances, say something like child safety, you need to get the police involved.

Coming back to your first issue about bylaws. Yes, the committee does have a legal responsibility to enforce bylaws. If there is sufficient evidence of a bylaw breach, then yes, the committee is meant to follow that through. However, just because somebody alleges a problem with the bylaw doesn't necessarily make it so.

If I say Nikki is causing noise on the scheme, and I want our bylaw enforced against her, that's one thing. But I need to come up with evidence. I need to cough up the logbook of all the times that she's caused me noise. Me saying Nikki is making a lot of noise is not enough, and committees are entirely within their rights to decline to do that.