The committee can be made to pay for cost if maintenance is not done

An adjudicator at the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management can make an order requiring the body corporate to reimburse an owner (or occupier) for damage they have incurred as a result of the body corporate’s failure to maintain common property. 

Chris Irons
Strata Solve
E: chris@stratasolve.com.au 
P: 0419 805 898