Visitor parking in strata – Who is a visitor?
You might wonder why the question of who is a visitor, matters and if you do, you are in the strata minority. The ostensible abuse of visitor car parking privileges is the trigger for an enormous...
Rights of Access to Lots
Many bodies corporate are mistaken about their rights to access lots. There is a right to access a lot only for specific purposes and in accordance with the Act. If you want to read an appeal...
Is it Defamatory to Call Someone Unfinancial?
This article was written by Frank Higginson at Hynes Legal It must be the season for ‘interesting’ defamation proceedings. This one will be of special interest to the strata managers (and perhaps...
Defamation in Strata
Defamation in Strata An article written by Hynes Legal Most of our articles are Queensland centric. This one is effectively national, because while defamation is something that our constitution...
FAQs – Removing and Replacing Committee Members
The Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management receive a number of queries about the process for removing and replacing committee members. Whilst the FAQs below provide...
Transferring Money Between Funds (Administrative Fund & Sinking Fund)
Transferring money between funds (Standard Module) Questions regarding what the body corporate can do when there is not enough money allocated in a certain fund, in particular the transferring of...
