New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 77

77 Proxies

(1) A resident of a retirement village may, from time to time, appoint a person as the proxy of the resident.

(2) Any such appointment is to be made in the form and manner prescribed by the regulations.

(3) A person is not the proxy of a resident of a retirement village for the purposes of this Act unless the person is appointed under this section.

Note: Certain other laws (such as the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 ) provide for the appointment of proxies for various purposes. However, an appointment under another law is not effective for the purposes of this Act, and an appointment under this Act is not effective for the purposes of another law (unless the other law provides that it is).

(4) However, any appointment of a person (other than the operator, a close associate of the operator or a person nominated by the operator) as the proxy of a resident of a retirement village, being an appointment in force on the commencement of this section, is taken to have been made under this section.

(5) A person appointed as the proxy of a resident of a retirement village cannot vote on the resident’s behalf if the resident personally votes on the matter concerned.