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Strata Management Handbook
As a strata unit owner, you need to understand good strata maintenance and management practices to ensure a well maintained living environment, which will safeguard the investment value of your property. This Strata Management Handbook provides a fundamental understanding of how to navigate through the intricacies of strata management processes and legal issues. With this handbook, you can enjoy a safe and worry-free journey in strata property ownership.
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Strata Management Handbook
As a strata unit owner, you need to understand good strata maintenance and management practices to ensure a well maintained living environment, which will safeguard the investment value of your property. This Strata Management Handbook provides a fundamental understanding of how to navigate through the intricacies of strata management processes and legal issues. With this handbook, you can enjoy a safe and worry-free journey in strata property ownership.
GRAB IT NOW! While stocks last.
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“I believe that this handbook will be a good tool, for property developers to share with all their staff to enhance their knowledge and will also serve as a good granding gesture, as a gift to each of their strata development purchasers, to manage their purchaser’s expectations as to what strata living will involve. “
– Mr. Ngian Siew Siong , Strata Management Handbook Editor
Frequently Asked Questions
The relevant provisions from the Strata Management Act are as follows.
There shall be a chairman, secretary and treasurer, all of whom shall be natural persons; to be elected by the management committee from among its members immediately after the conclusion of the general meeting but no chairman, secretary or treasurer shall hold office for more than two consecutive years. [Strata Management Act, Second Schedule, Para 2(5)]
All the members of the management committee of a management corporation shall retire from office at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting. A retiring member of the management committee shall be eligible for re-election but no member of the management committee shall hold office for more than three consecutive terms. [Strata Management Act,Second Schedule, Para 2(6)]
The first annual general meeting shall be held within one month after the expiry of the initial period and the subsequent annual general meetings shall be held once in each year, provided that not more than fifteen months shall lapse between the date of one annual general meeting and the next.[Strata Management Act, Second Schedule, Para 10(2)]
In brief the term of the members of the management committee shall not be more than 3 consecutive terms. Whereas the term of the chairman, secretary and treasurer shall not be more than 2 consecutive years.
A year is 12 months and whereas a term can be up to maximum of 15 months (12 months plus 3 months extension as allowed for under Strata Management Act, Second Schedule, Para 10(2)).
In the case of the term of the chairman, secretary and treasurer, it is 2 consecutive years ie. 24 consecutive months, as per Strata Management Act, Second Schedule, Para 2(5).
This is to ensure that there is no abuse to extend the term of the General Committee by not holding Annual General Meeting within each year. [Ref: Strata Management Act, Second Schedule, Para 10(2)]
For serious case, strata parcel owner can write to COB for advice. He/she can also seek advice from the Board of Valuers Appraisers Estate Agents& Property Managers Malaysia on the conduct and service of the registered property manager.
By-laws contained in the Third Schedule of Strata Management (Maintenance and Management) Regulations 2015, Paragraph 15 (Drying of laundry) states:
In a building used for residential or dwelling purposes, a proprietor shall not, except with the prior written approval of the JMB/MC, hang any washing, towel, bedding, clothing or other article on any part of his parcel in such a way as to protrude outside his parcel, other than at the areas designated for such purpose and leave them there only for a reasonable period.
Balcony is an accessory parcel and within the parcel.
Hanging any clothes outside the balcony is against the By-laws and hence it is prohibited.
If you are to hang any clothes within your balcony, it is advisable to hang them at low levels so that it is not ‘visible’ from the outside
Drying clothes at the balcony can be an eye-sore to the building and any action that is detrimental to the perception of a lax in the property management and maintenance can
affect the property and rental values. The JMC/MC can only impose fine if such fine is provided for in the By-laws or additional Bylaws. Paragraph 7(1) of the Third Schedule of Strata
Management (Maintenance and Management) Regulations 2015 states:
The JMB/MC may by a resolution at a general meeting impose a fine of such amount as shall be determined by that general meeting against any person who is in breach of any of these by-laws or any additional by-laws made under the Act.