Bar Association supports in principle overall reform direction of Buildings Management Ordinance amendment

The Bar Association said it supports in principle the overall reform direction of the government's amendment to the Buildings Management Ordinance to be proposed within this year, including tightening the authorisation instruments and voting rules for major repairs and large-value procurement. The Bar Association agreed that authorisation instruments should be returned 96 hours before the owners' meeting and made public 48 hours before the meeting, but had reservations about limiting eligible authorised persons to relatives or other owners in the same estate, believing that strengthening verification procedures could already address the risk of forged authorisation instruments, and suggested studying the establishment of a central electronic voting platform.