How many owners do we need to requisition a meeting?
Enter the total units in the corporation. Get the number needed to requisition a meeting under the current 15% rule — plus what changes when Ontario's pending amendments take effect on December 31, 2026.
Requisitioning owners must together own at least
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✓ Verified October 6, 2026 · Condominium Act, 1998, s. 46
Sources checked automatically every Monday. Last check October 5, 2026, no change found.See the record
Condominium Act, 1998, s. 46(1) — "A requisition for a meeting of owners may be made by those owners who at the time the board receives the requisition, own at least 15 per cent of the units, are listed in the record maintained by the corporation under section 46.1 and are entitled to vote."
What a valid requisition needs — current law
In writing, signed by the requisitionists.
States the nature of the business to be presented at the meeting.
Delivered personally or by registered mail to the board president or secretary, or deposited at the corporation's address for service.
Condominium Act, 1998, s. 46(2). No prescribed form is required under current law.
Meeting deadline — the board must call and hold the meeting within 35 days, or the business goes onto the next AGM agenda if the requisitionists agree. s. 46(4)
If the board doesn't act, a requisitionist may call the meeting themselves — it must then be held within 45 days of the day they call it. s. 46(5)
Changing December 31, 2026
The 15% threshold stays the same. Almost everything else doesn't.
Ontario's 2015 amendments to this section are scheduled to be proclaimed into force on this date. The share of units needed to requisition does not change — but the eligibility conditions, the form, and the entire response timeline do:
A new eligibility bar: requisitionists can't be 30+ days in arrears on common expenses. Not a rule today.
A prescribed form replaces today's plain written requisition.
The board gets 20 days to respond in writing (the Act itself says 10, but O. Reg. 48/01 — coming into force alongside it — actually sets this at 20).
If it agrees, the meeting must be held within 40 more days after that response window ends — around 60 days total, not 35.
If it declines, requisitionists get 10 days to revise, then 20 days to apply to the Condominium Authority Tribunal (or Superior Court) — replacing today's simple "call it yourself in 45 days" option.
Condominium Act, 1998, s. 46 (as replaced by 2015, c. 28, Sched. 1, s. 40) & O. Reg. 48/01, ss. 12.2.1–12.2.7. See the full breakdown below.
Section 46 of the Condominium Act, 1998 sets the bar at 15% of the units, held by owners who are already on the corporation's own owners' record and entitled to vote:
"A requisition for a meeting of owners may be made by those owners who at the time the board receives the requisition, own at least 15 per cent of the units, are listed in the record maintained by the corporation under section 46.1 and are entitled to vote."
The requisition itself is informal under current law — no prescribed form exists yet:
"The requisition shall, (a) be in writing and be signed by the requisitionists; (b) state the nature of the business to be presented at the meeting; and (c) be delivered personally or by registered mail to the president or secretary of the board or deposited at the address for service of the corporation."
The current timeline: 35 days, or 45 if the board doesn't act
Once the board receives a valid requisition, section 46(4) requires it to either add the business to the next AGM (if the requisitionists agree) or "call and hold a meeting of owners within 35 days." If the board misses that, section 46(5) is a self-help remedy: a requisitionist can call the meeting themselves, and it "shall be held within 45 days of the day on which the meeting is called."
What changes on December 31, 2026 — and what doesn't
The 2015 Protecting Condominium Owners Act rewrote section 46 entirely; those changes are scheduled to be proclaimed into force on this date. Reading the pending text directly, the threshold itself carries over unchanged:
"...a requisition for a meeting of owners can only be made by those owners who, at the time the board receives the requisition, (a) own at least 15 per cent of the units..."
But two new conditions are added alongside it — appearing in the s. 46.1 owners' record (already required today) and, new, having no arrears of 30 days or more:
"...(c) have no contributions to the common expenses payable for their units that have been in arrears for 30 days or more."
The requisition also stops being a plain written note: the pending law requires "the prescribed information" in "the prescribed form." And the timeline is restructured from a single deadline into a multi-step process:
Board response — 20 days, not 10. The pending Act text itself says the board has "10 days or such other time period, if any, that is prescribed" to respond in writing. O. Reg. 48/01 — amended in the same package — prescribes 20 days for this purpose, which is the figure that actually governs.
Meeting deadline — 40 more days. If the board agrees, it must call and hold the meeting (or add it to the next AGM, on a defined schedule) within 40 days after the end of that response period — so roughly 60 days from requisition to meeting in the ordinary case, not 35.
If the board declines — 10 days to revise. Requisitionists can fix and resubmit using the prescribed form.
If that's declined too — 20 days to escalate. Requisitionists can apply to the Condominium Authority Tribunal (once it has jurisdiction here) or the Superior Court before the requisition is deemed abandoned. Today's simple "call the meeting yourself within 45 days" option does not carry over into this structure.
One narrow addition: if the business involves removing or electing a director in a position reserved under s. 51(6), the pending law sets a separate 15%-of-non-leased-voting-units threshold for that specific purpose — a distinction that doesn't exist in current law.
Do parking and locker units count toward the 15 per cent?
No, when they are separate units. O. Reg. 48/01 s. 1.1 reads “15 per cent of the units” in s. 46(1) as 15 per cent of the units that are not parking, storage or service units under s. 49(3) of the Act. The same rule carries over to the replacement s. 46(1)(a) on December 31, 2026. A corporation with 200 suites and 150 parking units needs 30 units, not 53. Enter them in the second box and the calculator does this for you.
Does the 15% threshold change on December 31, 2026?
No. We read the pending replacement text directly rather than assuming: the 15%-of-units figure in the new s. 46(1)(a) is identical to the current s. 46(1). What changes is everything around it — eligibility, form, and the timeline.
Is the 30-day arrears rule in effect right now?
No. It appears only in the pending replacement of s. 46(1), not in the current, in-force text. A requisition today isn't invalidated by arrears under section 46 itself.
The Act says the board gets 10 days to respond — why does this page say 20?
Because section 46(7) of the pending text explicitly defers to "such other time period, if any, that is prescribed," and O. Reg. 48/01 — amended in the same not-yet-in-force package — prescribes 20 days for that purpose. Both pieces come into force together, so 20 days is what will actually apply.
Is December 31, 2026 a guaranteed date?
It's the date currently stated on the official consolidation, tied to a proclamation order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Ontario condominium law has shifted proclamation dates before, so treat this as the best current information and confirm again as the date approaches.
Do a corporation's by-laws affect any of this?
We found no by-law power over the threshold or the timeline in either the current or pending text of section 46 — unlike quorum, where a registered by-law can hold quorum at 25% throughout.
Is this legal advice?
No. It's general information based on the current legislation, verified against the sources linked above. For anything contested — especially once the new process is live — talk to a condominium lawyer.