New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

RETIREMENT VILLAGES REGULATION 2000 - REG 32

32 Claiming of uncollected goods

(1) A person who is entitled to possession of goods left in residential premises in a retirement village may claim the goods at any time before they are destroyed, sold or otherwise dealt with in accordance with this Part.

(2) The operator of the retirement village concerned must deliver up the goods, free of any charge (other than a removal or storage charge), to a person who claims them if the operator is satisfied that the person is entitled to claim them.

(3) The operator is entitled to require payment of any reasonable costs and expenses actually incurred in removing or storing (or both removing and storing) the goods before delivering the goods to a person under this clause.

(4) However, if the claim is for some but not all of the goods and the remaining goods are of sufficient value to cover the reasonable costs and expenses of removing or storing (or both removing and storing) all of the goods, the operator must deliver the claimed goods to the claimant without requiring payment for removal or storage.