The main piece of legislation regarding the management of strata schemes is the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW).  Time and time again, clients ask us about the rules for 2 lot strata schemes, and in particular, whether there needs to be an owners corporation and strata...

Proper procedure should be followed when changing by-laws within a strata scheme – this includes adding, modifying or repealing a by-law. But in some circumstances a resolution in relation to a by-law may still be effective even if the proper procedure was not followed.

The validity of a...

Section 162 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (NSW) provides that a Fair Trading Strata Schemes Adjudicator can order for the compulsory appointment of a strata managing agent to exercise all of the functions of an owners corporation, or only specified functions, as well as the...