To chargeback expenses, the strata corporation must have a bylaw that permits it to charge them back. The standard only requires that the damage arise from a component of the strata lot, which is the owner’s responsibility to repair and maintain. Similarly, before any other type of invoice is charged back, one should ask what provision of the Act, Regulations, bylaws or rules allows the council to charge this back. If the answer is because the strata lot contravened a bylaw,