Why NSW needs its own book
New South Wales has just rewritten much of its strata law. The Strata Schemes Legislation Amendment Act 2025 has been rolling out in stages, so a lot of confident advice from a few years ago no longer holds.
NSW has been rewriting the rulebook in stages since 2025. Some of what your longest-serving neighbour tells you is now out of date.
What's inside
- What your strata committee can decide, and why its decisions are decisions of the owners corporation
- Where your lot actually stops, and why the wall is usually common property
- The section 106 duty to repair, and the six-year window for owners to sue
- Capital works funds and the 10-year plan, in the standard form required from April 2026
- Insurance, the $20 million public liability minimum, and the commission disclosure rules
- Annual Fire Safety Statements, pool registration, asbestos and window safety devices
- Short-term letting: what a section 137A by-law can ban, and what it can never touch
- By-law enforcement from Notice to Comply through mediation to NCAT
- Strata renewal, the 75% threshold, and the Supreme Court at the end of it
- How to conduct yourself on a committee, the part no legislation covers
Plain English throughout, with checklists, a glossary, worked conversations and ready-to-adapt wording for motions, minutes and contractor briefs. General information only, not legal advice.