How do Committees work?
Committees need to decide themselves how they will organize their affairs to attend to the regular matters of the Body Corporate, and to special issues which will always arise from time to time. Some Committees decide that they’ll have regular, more or less scheduled, meetings – these could be monthly, bimonthly, quarterly etc. Others decide to only get together as a need arises. The Act doesn’t require the Committee to have any regular meetings – and apart from an implied requirement for them to formally decide the new budgets for the AGM, there is no requirement in the legislation for them to have a meeting at all. Committees need to be careful though about holding ‘adhoc’ or ‘informal’ meetings, especially if at those meetings any matter of any significance is discussed, or any expenditure is vetted or approved. The only type of Committee Meeting that can be ‘recognized’ is one that has been properly called, held, and minuted – all in accordance with the Act. And a Committee that do
