New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL PARKS ACT 1998 - SECT 32

32 Certain residents may appoint agent

(cf RT Act s 31)

(1) A resident under a residential tenancy agreement who because of:

(a) intellectual impairment or physical impairment, or

(b) illiteracy or an inability to read or write English sufficiently well, or

(c) absence from the residential premises,

is unable to deal with notices or other documents given under the agreement or this Act may appoint a person as the resident’s agent for the purpose of receiving those notices or other documents.

(2) An appointment under this section:

(a) may be made in the residential tenancy agreement or at any time after the agreement commences, and

(b) may be revoked at any time by the resident,

and any such appointment or revocation has no effect until it is notified to the park owner or the park manager.

(3) A park owner, a park manager or the Tribunal, if notified of the appointment, must give to a person appointed by a resident, until such time as the appointment expires or is revoked, any notices or other documents required by the residential tenancy agreement or this Act to be given to the resident.

(4) A notice or other document that is required by this section to be given to a person appointed by the resident and that is not so given is taken not to have been given to the resident.