66Building managers

66 Building managers

66 Building managers

(1) A building manager is a person who assists in exercising any one or more of the following functions of the owners corporation—

(a) managing common property,

(b) controlling the use of common property by persons other than the owners and occupiers of lots,

(c) maintaining and repairing common property.

(2) However, a person is not a building manager if—

(a) the person exercises the functions of a building manager only—

(i) on a voluntary or casual basis, or

(ii) as a member of the strata committee, or

(b) the person, or a class of persons to which the person belongs, is prescribed as not being a building manager.

(3) A person may be both a building manager and an on-site residential property manager.

(4) A building manager may be a person who is entitled to exclusive possession (whether or not jointly with any other person) of a lot or common property in a strata scheme.

(5) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to be a building manager for a strata scheme if the person meets the description of a building manager set out in this section, regardless of whether the title given to the person’s position is building manager, caretaker, resident manager or any other title.

s 66: Am 2025 No 14, Sch 1[18].