Short answer
Yes — one person can hold more than one office on the committee, such as being both secretary and treasurer. The chairperson, secretary and treasurer are separate roles, but the law doesn’t require three different people to fill them. Doubling up is common in smaller schemes with few volunteers.
The three offices
After the committee is elected, its members choose three office holders from among themselves:
- Chairperson — chairs meetings and helps keep decisions orderly.
- Secretary — handles notices, correspondence and records.
- Treasurer — looks after the scheme’s finances and levies.
These are distinct jobs, but they’re roles the committee assigns internally — not three separate seats that must go to three separate people.
When one person wears two hats
In a small scheme, there may simply not be enough willing volunteers to spread the offices across three people, so one member takes on two — often secretary and treasurer together. That’s allowed. Sharing the offices across more people spreads the workload and gives some natural checks and balances, but it’s a good-practice preference, not a legal requirement. What matters is that the duties of each office are actually carried out.
Doing three jobs without dropping any
The risk when one person holds several offices is overload — a missed notice, a late levy, an unrecorded decision. Straita takes the routine work off whoever holds the offices — the notices, the levy runs, the records and the deadlines — so one volunteer wearing two hats can still keep the secretary’s and treasurer’s duties fully covered.
Primary sources
- Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) — office holders of the strata committee.
- Who’s who in strata (NSW Government) — chairperson, secretary and treasurer roles.