Are General Meetings Losing Their Effectiveness in Strata Schemes? Guidelines to Organize and Manage Them Better
[2 CPD hours applied from LPPEH]
Online ZOOM
Price per pax
Speaker
Mrs. Saraswathy Shirke Deo
Principal & Founder of
Messrs Sara Deo & Co.
Seminar Outline
Management bodies of residential associations (RAs) or strata developments are artificial entities managed by human minds through its committee members subject to the restrictions imposed by its general meeting, the governing statutes and by-laws or its founding constitution for RAs.
General meetings of proprietors play a vital role in strata schemes. The Strata Management Act 2013, Second Schedule provides for meetings to be held periodically, quorum, methods of casting votes and how notice of meetings are to be given. However, little guidance is given for the substantive discussions and the proceedings of meetings itself. If the meeting of proprietors are not managed properly by adhering to perimeters of the laws, rules of natural justice, proper decorum and in the spirit of co-existence, general meetings can quickly become grounds to breed divisive and destructive politics.
This seminar will provide useful guidance on how maintenance and management are to be determined collectively, what sort of restrictions can be imposed on management committee’s managerial discretions, how to effectively address proprietors issues and how to invoke the applicable laws and regulations to control unreasonable, unruly or defiant behaviours of some proprietors at general meetings.
This seminar will be highly useful for proprietors, property managers, management committees, commissioners of buildings, property lawyers, enforcement agencies and all property industry professionals.
Seminar Talk Points
- What are the role and functions of General meetings of proprietors in strata schemes?
- The key requirements under the Strata Management Act 2013, Second Schedule that must be adhered to by management bodies.
- What are the aspects of general meeting provisions which are not provided for under the Second Schedule of the Act?
- Which area of law do we refer to on how to draft minutes of general meetings, contents of the minutes, role of the chairman of the meeting, whether chairman of the meeting can be ousted by the floor in certain circumstances and other aspects which are not specifically dealt with under the Second Schedule of the Act.
- Remedies available if the meeting of proprietors are not managed properly by adhering to perimeters of the laws, rules of natural justice, proper decorum and in the spirit of co-existence.
- How to prevent general meetings from becoming grounds to breed divisive and destructive politics in strata schemes by relying on existing legal framework?
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