New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STRATA SCHEMES MANAGEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 64

64 What power does an owners corporation have to carry out work at its own expense?

(1) An owners corporation may carry out such work as is necessary to rectify any of the following defects:

(a) any structural defect in any part of a building comprised in a lot that affects or is likely to affect the support or shelter provided by that lot for another lot in the building or the common property,

(b) any defect in any pipe, wire, cable or duct that provides, or through which passes, any water, sewage, drainage, gas, electricity, garbage, artificially heated or cooled air, heating oil or other service (including telephone, radio or television services) within a lot.

(2) An owners corporation may carry out work referred to in this section at its own expense if the cost of the work cannot be recovered from some other person.