New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STRATA SCHEMES MANAGEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 17

17 What happens if executive committee is not appointed?

(1) An Adjudicator may, on application, make an order appointing a person nominated by the applicant (and who has consented to that nomination) to convene a meeting of the owners corporation if no executive committee of the owners corporation exists after the first annual general meeting.

(2) The meeting is to be convened and held within such time as is specified in the order.

(3) A meeting held under this section is, for the purpose of the election of an executive committee, taken to be the first annual general meeting of the owners corporation.

(4) An order made under this section may include such ancillary or consequential provisions as the Adjudicator thinks fit.

(5) If an order made under this section so provides:

(a) the person appointed to convene a meeting of an owners corporation by the order is to preside at the meeting and, while the person so presides, is taken to be the chairperson of the owners corporation, and

(b) notice of that meeting may be given in the manner specified in the order.

(6) An application under this section may be made only by an owner, mortgagee or covenant chargee of a lot in the relevant strata scheme.