RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1986 - SECT 20 Resident to be given certain information

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1986 - SECT 20

S. 20(1) amended by No. 2/2013 s. 6.

    (1)     A person who includes in a disclosure statement, a factsheet or a document relating to the retirement village prescribed for the purposes of section 18B(1) a statement which the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular is guilty of an offence.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

S. 20(2) amended by No. 4/2005 s. 6(1), repealed by No. 50/2014 s. 45.

    *     *     *     *     *

    (3)     If asked by a resident, an owner or owner's agent of a retirement village must give to a resident information concerning the retirement village which the resident reasonably requires and the owner or agent is able to give.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

    (4)     A person who under subsection (3) gives information to a resident which the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular is guilty of an offence.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

S. 20(5) amended by No. 4/2005 s. 6(2).

    (5)     In this section and in sections 21, 21A and 23 "owner" includes manager.