New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 78

78 Certain limitations on proxies

(1) If a person holds appointments as the proxy of 5 residents in any one village at any one time, any appointment of the person as the proxy of another resident of the village, while the person continues to hold the 5 appointments, is void.

(2) Any appointment of a person as the proxy of a resident of a retirement village after the commencement of this section:

(a) may be revoked at any time by the appointor’s giving notice in writing to the person, and

(b) if it is not revoked, terminates:

(i) after the first meeting at which it is exercised, or

(ii) if it is not exercised during the period of 6 months immediately following the date on which the appointment is made-on the expiry of that period.

(3) Nothing in this section prevents a resident of a retirement village from reappointing a person as the resident’s proxy after the revocation or termination of such an appointment.