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Committee Roles

What happens if no one nominates for the strata committee?

Short answer

If no one nominates, the scheme simply doesn’t have a committee — and the committee’s functions fall back to the owners corporation as a whole, decided at general meetings. A scheme isn’t legally required to have a committee, so this is workable, just more cumbersome. If a scheme genuinely can’t function, further options exist, including NCAT appointing a strata managing agent.

The owners corporation absorbs the functions

The committee exists to make routine decisions on the owners’ behalf so they don’t have to gather for everything. If there’s no committee, those decisions don’t disappear — they revert to all the owners, made by resolution at general meetings. In a very small scheme this can work reasonably well, because the owners are effectively the committee already. In a larger scheme it’s clunkier, since more matters have to wait for a general meeting.

If the scheme can’t run itself

Where a scheme is stuck — no committee, and owners unable to keep it functioning — there are escalation routes:

  • Another AGM push. The scheme can keep seeking nominations; often people step forward once the alternative becomes clear.
  • NCAT. The Tribunal can make orders about the running of a scheme, including appointing a strata managing agent to exercise some or all of the functions where the scheme can’t manage them itself.

These are backstops, not the first move — most schemes resolve a nominations gap simply by asking again with the consequences spelled out.

Making stepping up feel manageable

Often the real reason no one nominates is that the role looks like too much work. Straita changes that calculation for a self-managing scheme: it does the heavy lifting — levies, notices, records, deadlines — so serving on the committee means making decisions, not drowning in admin, which makes it far easier to get owners to put their hands up.

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