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Thinking about joining your building's committee? What the role actually involves, who is eligible, and how to nominate.
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Thinking about joining your building's committee? What the role actually involves, who is eligible, and how to nominate.
The job is the same everywhere. The rules, the words and the money are not. Pick your state or territory and we will show you the version that actually applies.
Strata Schemes Management Act 2015
A New South Wales strata committee has between one and nine members, elected at each AGM, with schemes over 100 lots required to have at least three. Owners can nominate themselves or...
Read the NSW guideOwners Corporations Act 2006
Victorian owners corporations of more than a handful of lots elect a committee at the AGM, and the chair carries a casting vote — a small difference from New South Wales with real...
Read the VIC guideBody Corporate and Community Management Act 1997
Queensland is the most structured jurisdiction here. The committee has three named executive positions — chairperson, secretary and treasurer — that must be filled, plus ordinary members,...
Read the QLD guideStrata Titles Act 1985
In Western Australia the committee is called the council of owners, and in very small schemes all the owners together form it. Elected at the AGM, the council runs the strata company...
Read the WA guideStrata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996
South Australian corporations may appoint a management committee, and where they do not, the corporation acts as a whole. That flexibility is genuinely useful in a small scheme and...
Read the SA guideStrata Titles Act 1998
Tasmanian bodies corporate may appoint a committee, and in the many small schemes that make up most of the state, the owners simply act together. Either arrangement works — what does not...
Read the TAS guideUnit Titles (Management) Act 2011
An ACT owners corporation is run by its executive committee, elected at the AGM with named office-holders. The Territory's statutory sinking fund plan means an ACT executive committee has...
Read the ACT guideUnit Titles Act 1975 and Unit Titles Schemes Act 2009
Northern Territory bodies corporate elect a management committee at the AGM under whichever Act governs the scheme. Territory committees face a particular difficulty: a large share of...
Read the NT guideA committee makes decisions between general meetings, within the authority the owners corporation has given it. It is not a landlord, not a caretaker and not a manager. Understanding that boundary is most of what makes the job sustainable.
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