Retirement Villages Act 2003

Registrar of Retirement Villages, code of practice, and miscellaneous matters - Validation of fees

103: Regulations defining retirement villages

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"Rules to Decide What is a Retirement Village"

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The Governor-General can decide if a place is a retirement village or not. You need to know that the Minister helps the Governor-General make this decision. The Minister only makes a recommendation if it is necessary to stop people avoiding their responsibilities or to clarify if a place is a retirement village. The Minister looks at whether a specific place or a type of place should be considered a retirement village. You can find more information about how these decisions are published in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. These decisions are called secondary legislation. The Governor-General's decision is important because it helps people understand what is and is not a retirement village. You can look at the rules to see how this works. The rules are there to help you understand the law.

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104: Regulations prescribing criteria for exemptions under section 41, or

"Rules for when you don't need a statutory supervisor in a retirement village"

Part 5Registrar of Retirement Villages, code of practice, and miscellaneous matters
Validation of fees

103Regulations defining retirement villages

The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, declare specified property, buildings, or other premises, or property, buildings, or other premises of a specified class, to be or not to be a retirement village for the purposes of this Act.
The Minister must not recommend the making of any Order in Council under subsection (1) unless, in the opinion of the Minister, the Order in Council is necessary—
to prevent the avoidance of obligations under this Act as a consequence of any scheme or arrangement; or
to clarify whether—whose status is in doubt are or are not a retirement village.
1. specific property, buildings, or other premises; or
2. property, buildings, or other premises of a specified class—

An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes

Section 103(3): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).