New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 139

139 Operator not to recover possession of premises except by order

(1) A person must not (whether acting on his or her own behalf or on behalf of another):

(a) enter, or attempt to enter, residential premises within a retirement village, or

(b) remove, or attempt to remove, a resident from residential premises within a retirement village, or

(c) take any other action that is intended, or is likely, to cause a resident to vacate residential premises within a retirement village,

for the purpose of recovering possession of the residential premises otherwise than in accordance with this or any other Act or law.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units.

(3) A court before which proceedings for an offence under this section are brought may (in addition to any other penalty) order the person who committed the offence or any person on whose behalf that person acted to pay to the person entitled (or formerly entitled) to occupy the premises concerned such compensation as it thinks fit.