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Home » Committee Concerns » Committee Concerns QLD » QLD: Q&A Teleconference Committee Meetings. Can Lot Owners Listen?

QLD: Q&A Teleconference Committee Meetings. Can Lot Owners Listen?

Published March 26, 2020 By Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal 4 Comments Last Updated July 28, 2022

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A Qld lot owner would like to know the rules around teleconference committee meetings. Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal provides the following response.

Question: If a committee meeting is going to be held by teleconference because of the current COVID-19 crisis, are lot owners permitted to listen?

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If a committee meeting is going to be held by teleconference because of the current COVID-19 crisis, are lot owners permitted to listen, just as if the meeting was being held in person?

If yes, what does a lot owner do if a request to do so is refused?

Answer: The committee should use one of the many apps that allow the meeting ‘owner’ to mute people.

The committee should use one of the many apps (Zoom being one) that allow the meeting ‘owner’ to mute people. That way, they can listen in.

There would have to be some functionality or other understanding to remove you if you had an interest in the matter being considered as well.

If the committee refuses that, you can look at your rights afterwards – which is the same position as would have been had you not been allowed into a physical committee meeting.

Have a question about attending committee meetings via teleconference or something to add to the article? Leave a comment below.

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Frank Higginson
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P: 07 3193 0500
W: http://www.hyneslegal.com.au

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About Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal

Frank Higginson heads the community titles practice at Hynes Legal.

Frank commenced five years articles of clerkship on the Gold Coast while studying law externally in January 1992 and apart from a two-year hiatus working in London with a multinational firm from 1997 to 1999 he has practiced in Queensland in property matters for his entire career.

Frank joined Hynes Legal in 2001. He became a partner/director in 2004 and since then has whittled his practice down to the two keys areas for strata law in Queensland - body corporate law and management rights.

He and his team are the only experts in Queensland that truly specialise in both of these areas of law.

The rationale for this is the belief that when there are issues in dispute, it helps enormously (from a legal, strategic and commercial position) to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and views of the other party. It creates the opportunity to make commercially sensible suggestions to enable the resolution of all issues in dispute. Acting for only one side of an industry (particularly if vociferously so) prevents that.

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Comments

  1. Zlata Rous says

    April 6, 2020 at 9:02 am

    where does it state in the NSW act that a lot owner has to advise 24 hours if they wish to attend strata committee meetings

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  2. Lyn Mattingley says

    March 27, 2020 at 6:34 am

    Should AGM’s be held at this time? How do we postpone an AGM which is due but has not been called yet?

    Reply
    • Nikki Jovicic says

      March 27, 2020 at 2:16 pm

      In response from Chris Irons, Hynes Legal:

      Hi Lyn, assuming you’re in Queensland, the body corporate can apply to the Commissioner’s Office for an order by an adjudicator to hold the meeting ‘out of time’. As per the post, an AGM can still feasibly held electronically.

      Reply
  3. Todd Garsden - Mahoneys says

    March 27, 2020 at 5:49 am

    And just remember that an owner’s right to attend a committee meeting only exists if they provide 24 hours of written notice to the secretary

    Reply

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