Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 2012 (NO. 38 OF 2012) - SECT 194

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person (whether acting on the person's own behalf or on behalf of another)—

        (a)     does any of the following things for the purpose of recovering possession of residential premises in a retirement village:

              (i)     enters residential premises within the village;

              (ii)     removes a resident from residential premises within the village;

              (iii)     takes any other action that is intended, or is likely, to cause a resident to vacate residential premises within the village; and

        (b)     does a thing mentioned in paragraph (a) otherwise than in accordance with this Act or another territory law.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (2)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.

    (3)     In a proceeding for an offence under this section, the court may order that the person who committed the offence, or any person on whose behalf that person acted, pay to the entitled person compensation as the court considers appropriate.

    (4)     In this section:

"entitled person" means the person entitled, or formerly entitled, to occupy the residential premises the subject of the offence.