New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STRATA SCHEMES MANAGEMENT ACT 2015 - SECT 237

237 Orders for appointment of strata managing agent

(1) Order appointing or requiring the appointment of strata managing agent to exercise functions of owners corporation The Tribunal may, on its own motion or on application, make an order appointing a person as a strata managing agent or requiring an owners corporation to appoint a person as a strata managing agent--

(a) to exercise all the functions of an owners corporation, or

(b) to exercise specified functions of an owners corporation, or

(c) to exercise all the functions other than specified functions of an owners corporation.

(2) Order may confer other functions on strata managing agent The Tribunal may also, when making an order under this section, order that the strata managing agent is to have and may exercise--

(a) all the functions of the chairperson, secretary, treasurer or strata committee of the owners corporation, or

(b) specified functions of the chairperson, secretary, treasurer or strata committee of the owners corporation, or

(c) all the functions of the chairperson, secretary, treasurer or strata committee of the owners corporation other than specified functions.

(3) Circumstances in which order may be made The Tribunal may make an order only if satisfied that--

(a) the management of a strata scheme the subject of an application for an order under this Act or an appeal to the Tribunal is not functioning or is not functioning satisfactorily, or

(b) an owners corporation has failed to comply with a requirement imposed on the owners corporation by an order made under this Act, or

(c) an owners corporation has failed to perform one or more of its duties, or

(d) an owners corporation owes a judgment debt.

(4) Qualifications of person appointed A person appointed as a strata managing agent as a consequence of an order made by the Tribunal must--

(a) hold a strata managing agent's licence issued under the Property and Stock Agents Act 2002 , and

(b) have consented in writing to the appointment, which consent, in the case of a strata managing agent that is a corporation, may be given by the secretary or another officer of the corporation or another person authorised by the corporation to do so.

(5) Terms and conditions of appointment A strata managing agent may be appointed as a consequence of an order under this section on the terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration by the owners corporation and the duration of appointment) specified in the order making or directing the appointment.

(6) Return of documents and other records A strata managing agent appointed as a consequence of an order under this section must cause a general meeting of the owners corporation to be held not later than 14 days before the end of the agent's appointment and must on or before that meeting make arrangements to return to the owners corporation all documents and other records of the owners corporation held by the agent.

(7) Revocation of certain appointments An order may be revoked or varied on application and, unless sooner revoked, ceases to have effect at the expiration of the period after its making (not exceeding 2 years) that is specified in the order.

(8) Persons who may make an application The following persons may make an application under this section--

(a) a person who obtained an order under this Act that imposed a duty on the owners corporation or on the strata committee or an officer of the owners corporation and that has not been complied with,

(b) a person having an estate or interest in a lot in the strata scheme concerned or, in the case of a leasehold strata scheme, in a lease of a lot in the scheme,

(c) the authority having the benefit of a positive covenant that imposes a duty on the owners corporation,

(d) a judgment creditor to whom the owners corporation owes a judgment debt,

(e) the Secretary.