Up to Date with your Fire Safety?

Up to Date with your Fire Safety?

Under the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 all buildings have annual fire compliance obligations. All buildings classified as class 1B to 9 must comply every year (only stand-alone houses and townhouses are exempt).Do you have fire obligations? If your building is...
Electronic Voting and Attendance

Electronic Voting and Attendance

During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals and organisations across all sectors have embraced the benefits of electronic technologies to help them communicate and conduct business and other activities. One of the key objectives of the new regulations is to help...
Emergency Expenditure Refresher

Emergency Expenditure Refresher

What constitutes as emergency expenditure…..Under Section 243A of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 it states;Example of emergency circumstances – a burst water pipe the repair or replacement of which exceeds the body corporate committee’s...
Validity of Motions

Validity of Motions

More and more, when reviewing Adjudicators orders, we are seeing a trend of requests for motions to be invalidated is upheld – on the basis that the motions were not valid in accordance with the legislation. In November 2017, we wrote an article around how motions...
Concealed Water Leaks – The Hidden Cost.

Concealed Water Leaks – The Hidden Cost.

Concealed water leaks to properties consist of a burst water supply pipe located underground which goes undetected until each resident receives a water bill from council with increased  water consumption and additional costs on their rates bills. This occurs at...