Month: July 2023
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Question: My roof has been leaking for 7 months. While the body corporate says they will fix the leak, nothing…
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Need to keep the Body Corporate Informed
Committees are appointed to help manage the affairs of the body corporate without needing to refer every decision to the…
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Put into effect the lawful decisions of the Body Corporate
Committee’s must put into effect the lawful decisions of the Body Corporate. If the resolutions were to engage given contractors,…
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Analysis of the process by committee members with screen replacement
The caretaker was approach in April 2022 from the owner of Lot 27. We sought clarification from the body corporate representative…
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Dispute with Committee after 29th May Committee Meeting
I now need to extend that dispute under section 227(1)(h) of the BCCM Act 1997, with the committee of the Body Corporate…
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Dispute with re information stored in body corporate records for erroneous reasons
I am informing the committee that I have a dispute, as defined under section 227(1)(b) of the BCCM Act 1997,…
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Complaint of Archers Behaviour
Archer BCM (Gold Coast) should act to comply the code of conduct in the Act, particularly in points 1 “must have…
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submission to the adjudication application REF 0030-2023. lot 27 v body corporate
submission to the adjudication application REF 0030-2023. This is the submission of the owner of Lot 1. The evidence on…
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Defamation risk from AGM 2022
The opinion is that the protections of 111A of the BCCM Act 1997 to the body corporate and the committee…
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Was it reasonable to send a breach to Report for Lot 13 when they allowed lot 17 to park in a exclusive use area?
There have been action by members of the committee, in the voting on the parking in the exclusive use parking areas…
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What is the requirement for the body corporate to inspect inside a lot for termites?
The provision of a service to inspect the inside of owners lots is not a function of the body corporate…
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Dispute from Committee decisions 2023
I am informing the committee that I have a dispute, as defined under section 227(1)(h) of the BCCM Act 1997,…
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Is it appropriate to revalue improvements under $3000 to get a committee to approve not the body corporate?
A resident who lives on the top floor of our apartment building has sought approval to place insulation in the…
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Do Committee’s have to comply with technicalities? Yes if told about the requirements.
Judge Bolton’s comments in Wei-Xin Chen v Body Corporate for Wishart Village CTS 19482, Appeal 4080 of 2000, District Court…
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Approval for airspace with Pergolas – Legal Opinion
To build a permanent pergola that uses common property airspace you will need either: Both of these require a resolution…
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Problems with Informal committee meetings
From a legislative perspective, one of the main aims of the BCCM Act and modules is self governance of bodies…
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The committee can be made to pay for cost if maintenance is not done
An adjudicator at the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management can make an order requiring the body corporate…
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One person can not act acting for the committee
The body corporate committee is a collective decision-making entity. Individual committee members are not empowered to make decisions on behalf…
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Improvements noted 2018 not on the alteration register
Variations 61. 93. –94. –95. –96. gate, rocks to side of house 97. –