The Legislative Assembly (AL) finally passed a government-initiated bill regulating the management of the common areas of condominiums, slated to come into effect a year after its promulgation in the Official Gazette (BO), during a plenary session yesterday.
However, the legislature rejected a clause in the bill which proposed that the new owner of a condominium unit would have been required to pay up to two years of outstanding management fees the previous owner of the unit failed to pay.
While 15 lawmakers voted in favour of the item – Clause 3 of Article 9 of the bill, 13 lawmakers voted against the clause and three legislators abstained. As no more than half of the lawmakers who attended the plenary session voted in favour of the clause, the clause was rejected.
Lawmakers debate the government’s “Legal System of the Management of the Common Parts of Condominiums” bill during yesterday’s plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle. Photo: Tony Wong
