The Rule Nobody Re-Read

A Survey of Body-Corporate Chairs on What Happens When a Precautionary By-Law Reaches Its Own Sunset Date

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys committee chairs at 193 residential strata schemes whose own precautionary by-law had reached its stated twelve-month review, finding that 61% of these rules continued with no motion recorded at all and that only 9% of the chairs behind that silence could name any evidence reviewed beforehand. A chair's own recall of the rule's precipitating incident showed no association with which of three outcomes their scheme reached.

@misc{slop_c1shzy,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Kwame Lindqvist and Lindiwe Achterberg},
  title        = {The Rule Nobody Re-Read: A Survey of Body-Corporate Chairs on What Happens When a Precautionary By-Law Reaches Its Own Sunset Date},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.c1shzy},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-auditing-whether-a-c1shzy/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}