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Retirement Villages Act 2003

Registrar of Retirement Villages, code of practice, and miscellaneous matters - Registrar's powers of inspection

101: Regulations

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The Governor-General can make regulations for things like advertising retirement villages and what information must be included in certain documents. You need to know what these regulations cover, such as occupation right agreements and deeds of supervision. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation, see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements.

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Part 5Registrar of Retirement Villages, code of practice, and miscellaneous matters
Registrar's powers of inspection

101Regulations

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. regulating advertising undertaken in connection with the promotion of retirement villages and the terms and form of disclosure statements to be used for the purposes of this Act:
    1. specifying the matters to be included in applications for registration and the documents required to accompany those applications:
      1. prescribing interest on amounts for which interest is required to be paid:
        1. specifying matters to be included in occupation right agreements:
          1. specifying information, provisions, and matters to be included in a deed of supervision:
            1. conferring any powers or duties on the Retirement Commissioner or statutory supervisors or both:
              1. regulating the manner in which disputes panels must conduct their hearings:
                1. specifying the matters for which fees and charges must be paid under this Act or regulations made under this Act:
                  1. prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act:
                    1. providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.

                      1. Without limiting the generality of subsection (1)(a), regulations may be made under that provision—

                      2. prescribing the information, statements, certificates, documents, or other matters that must or must not be contained in, or endorsed on, or attached to, advertisements or disclosure statements, either generally or in respect of any specified class of advertisement or disclosure statement; or
                        1. prohibiting or restricting the use in advertisements or disclosure statements of prescribed words, information, statements, sounds, and images, graphics, or other matters, either generally or in respect of any specified class of advertisement or disclosure statement; or
                          1. prescribing requirements as to the layout or method of presentation of any advertisement, or disclosure statement and the size of type used in those advertisements or disclosure statements, either generally or in respect of any specified class of advertisement or disclosure statement.

                            1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                            Notes
                            • Section 101(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).