Dazed and confused by law and regs changes

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  • 04/10/2022 at 5:22 pm #65641
    Jimmy-T
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      Am I missing something here … apart from any ability to shrug off NSW Fair Trading’s dubious communications skills, that is? Take the announcement las
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    • 04/10/2022 at 10:21 pm #65650
      newb
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        Yes in deed, re why do they need a rule about strata managers handing over documents, (I was thinking if your mechanic wrecks your car or steals it, it’s just not on and doesn’t happen and there are avenues to rectify it. You pay a mechanic because you’re busy and don’t have time to be a mechanic as well as everything else. And they do it quick and well and skilled, for a fair price for a mechanic, at a price you agree and expect. So why on earth do strata managers get away with so much dodginess? And people accept it?)

        and yes in deed a cheat sheet listing changes to the laws and pointing to the relevant sections would be fabulous.

        And thank you. I have still yet to tunnel through this. This article is helpful.

        Rules for secret agents. Ha ha! You must be a master of disguise and excel in eaves dropping …

        04/10/2022 at 10:40 pm #65656
        Jimmy-T
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          Interestingly, I can’t find any penalties breaching the regulation on handing over documents.  They may be there, hidden somewhere, but the way these regs and the Act are laid out makes it impossible to find them.

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          05/10/2022 at 9:35 am #65663
          Stevecro
          Flatchatter

            Schedule 15, ‘Offences under this Regulation’, its right down the bottom.

            05/10/2022 at 9:42 am #65671
            Jimmy-T
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              Yes, I saw that, but I couldn’t work out which one applied to non-transfer of documents.  Would it have killed them to have put “penalties of [this order] apply”, where “this order” would be either the higher or lower of the amounts in Schedule 15 or, as with breaches in strata law, a number of penalty units, with the base unit changing from time to time with the government not having to revise the Act every time fines need to keep pace with inflation.

              It’s all very well for the government to lump strata managers in with stock and station agents, and then lump strata into Fair Trading alongside them, but there should be some consistency across the board in the way these issues are handled.

               

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