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RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 2012 (NO. 38 OF 2012) - SECT 10

Meaning of retirement village

    (1)     In this Act:

"retirement village"—

        (a)     means a complex containing residential premises that are—

              (i)     predominantly or exclusively occupied, or intended to be predominantly or exclusively occupied, by retired people who have entered into village contracts with an operator of the complex; or

              (ii)     prescribed by regulation; but

        (b)     does not include any of the following:

              (i)     any building or part of a building used or intended to be used for the provision of residential care under the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cwlth) by an approved provider under that Act;

              (ii)     a building or part of a building intended to be used for the provision of respite care under the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cwlth);

              (iii)     a mobile home park;

              (iv)     residential premises that are the subject of a residential tenancy agreement to which the housing commissioner is a party;

              (v)     a boarding house;

              (vi)     accommodation provided in a complex for employees of the complex who are not residents of the retirement village;

              (vii)     residential premises that are the subject of a residential tenancy agreement—

    (A)     to which the operator of a retirement village is a party; and

    (B)     that contains a term to the effect that this Act does not apply to the premises;

              (viii)     any other place prescribed by regulation.

    (2)     In this section:

"mobile home park—"see the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 , dictionary.



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