You are looking at a schedule called 'Transitional, savings, and related provisions' for the Retirement Villages Act 2003. This schedule has extra information that is not part of the main act. It is empowered by section 3A of the act. You can find more about this in section 3A by following the link to s 3A. This schedule talks about changes made by the Regulatory Systems (Housing) Amendment Act 2019. The changes made by section 7 of the Regulatory Systems (Housing) Amendment Act 2019 do not apply to offences that happened before that section started. You can read about these changes in section 7 of the Regulatory Systems (Housing) Amendment Act 2019. These rules are part of the law, and they help explain how the changes affect people. They are part of the Retirement Villages Act 2003, which is a law in New Zealand.