​18. Property

​E.  Ownership

i.  Legislation

New South Wales:
Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) amended by the COVID-19 Legislation Amendment (Emergency Measures—Miscellaneous) Act 2020 (NSW): provides that regulations may be made to provide for the following matters--
  1. altered arrangements for convening meetings of an owners corporation for a strata scheme and meetings of the strata committee of an owners corporation, including for the issue or service of notices and other documents in relation to those meetings;
  2. altered arrangements for the way a vote may be conducted at the meetings;
  3. an alternative to affixing the seal of the owners corporation; and
  4. extending the time period in which a thing is required to be done under the Act.

The proposed amendments also provide that a variation of a time period prescribed by the regulations continues to have effect for the specified time despite the repeal of the section or the expiry of the regulation. The regulations expire six months after commencement, unless earlier resolved by Parliament. The proposed amendments are repealed on 13 November 2020, unless the regulations prescribe a later date for the repeal, being not later than 13 May 2021.
 
ii.  Case law
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This is an area of substantive law that may result in case law. As of the last update, we are not aware of any relevant decision of a superior court in this area.