New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 59

59 Operator to provide village emergency system on request

(1) The residents of a retirement village may, by a special resolution, request the operator of the village to provide or arrange for a village emergency system of a specified kind in the village.

(2) If such a request is made, the residents are taken to have consented to the inclusion, in the proposed annual budget relating to the financial year next following the date of the resolution, of the cost of providing or arranging for the village emergency system concerned.

(3) If the operator fails to comply with a request referred to in this section, any resident of the village may apply to the Tribunal for (and the Tribunal may make) an order directing the operator to provide or arrange for a village emergency system of the kind requested by the residents.

(4) The operator must ensure that any village emergency system provided in the village (whether or not it was provided at the request of the residents) is regularly and adequately monitored and serviced.

(5) Nothing in this section prevents a resident of a retirement village from arranging, at the resident's expense, for the provision of a system that will enable the resident to summon assistance in an emergency. However, any such system is not a village emergency system.

(6) In this section,
"village emergency system" means a system (such as buttons in residential premises and common areas, or bracelets that can be worn by residents) that enables residents to summon assistance in an emergency.