I REFER to last Thursday’s letter by Mr Henry Ng, ‘Update law to deal with recalcitrant condo residents’.
We wish to highlight that the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act provides a legal framework for the management and maintenance of strata properties such as condominiums. The Act, which spells out the duties and obligations of various stakeholders such as the subsidiary proprietor, management corporation, council members and managing agent, is aimed at facilitating self-regulation among these stakeholders who have interests in the well-being of the strata properties.
The Act prescribes a set of by-laws that every management corporation is required to adopt. To enable flexibility and autonomy in the running of strata properties, management corporations are also allowed to make additional by-laws to control and manage the use of common property and the strata lots in the development, and all subsidiary proprietors and occupiers are obliged to comply with these by-laws. Continue reading
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