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It is not only the SC that is permitted to submit Motions. Any lot owner is within their rights to submit a Motion
members of the SC are owners so can individually move a motion but the SC itself has no power to require a motion to be included in the agenda – SSMA 2015 Schedule 1, Part 2 Section 4:1 states that Any owner, or any person entitled to vote at a general meeting of an owners corporation, may require a motion to be included in the agenda of the next general meeting of the owners corporation.
Any motion on the agenda can be moved by anyone entitled to vote at a general meeting but unless an eligible person actually does it can not be put to the vote.
Not only do motions not need to be seconded, neither the chair nor the council have the authority which Sir Humphrey implies exists.
Sir Humphrey wrote:
Normal meeting procedure includes that a motion proposed by one person should be seconded by another member. If a person proposes a motion and nobody seconds it, the chair is entitled to decline to put the motion up for a debate and a vote and to move on with the meeting agenda… If the serial motion proposer has no seconder, the chair is entitled to refuse to put the matter on the agenda for the meeting.I believe the above is entirely incorrect
General meetings
The agenda includes every motion that is to be considered at the meeting. The motions are on that agenda because they have been proposed in accordance with the Act. The owner put it in before the required submission date, the committee proposed it at any stage, or they are statutory motions that must go on the agenda every time (as example, confirmation of the minutes of the last meeting).
There is no reason for someone to propose it and second it at the meeting itself. There is nothing under either BCCM Act or any Module that requires a seconder. If that was required, it would mean that the single owner voicing opposition to a particular position without the support of any other owner could not be heard, and that is not what the BCCM Act is about.
https://hyneslegal.com.au/news/seconding-motions-is-that-really-necessary/