Regis Towers Real Estate v The Owners - Strata Plan 56443 [2002] NSWSC 1153

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Regis Towers Real Estate v The Owners - Strata Plan 56443 [2002] NSWSC 1153 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 5167/2001 HEARING DATE(S) : 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 October 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 3 December 2002

PARTIES : Regis Towers Real Estate Pty Ltd v The Owners - Strata Plan 56443 JUDGMENT OF : Acting Justice Macready at 1

J.S. Wheelhouse for plaintiff/respondent COUNSEL : F. Corsaro SC & S Prince for defendant/applicant D Grieve QC for Meriton Apartments Rosier Partners Lawyers for plaintiff/respondent SOLICITORS : Andreones for defendant/applicant D Grynberg In House counsel for Meriton Apartments CATCHWORDS : Contracts. Construction and interpretation of contracts. Agreement for caretaker services to a large complex of strata units. Whether on its construction the agreement delegated functions of the Owners Corporation is in breach of s13(3) of Strata Schemes Management Act 1996. Held that it did not constitute a delegation of functions. Property Stock and Business Agents Act 1941, s 20. LEGISLATION CITED : Strata Schemes Management Act 1996, s 13, 20, 26, 27, 28, 61, 62. Strata Titles Act 1973, s 78. Interpretation Act 1987, s 35. Gillett v Halwood Corporation Ltd (1998) NSWSC 431 Owners Strata Plan No 51487 v Broadsand Pty Ltd [2002] NSWSC 770 Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Company Pty Ltd (1985) 160 CLR 16 CASES CITED : Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd (2001) 207 CLR 21 Australian Broadcasting Commission v Australian Performing Right Association Ltd (1973) 129 CLR 99 at 109-110 Yango Pastoral Company Pty Ltd v First Chicago Australia Ltd (1978) 139 CLR 410 See Semrani v Manoun; Williams v Manoun [2001] NSWCA 337 DECISION : Paragraph 74