Right to appoint agent
101 Right to appoint agent
A resident of a retirement village may appoint a person as the resident’s agent for receiving notices or other documents to be given to the resident under a village contract or under this Act.
Examples
1 if the resident cannot read or write English
2 if the resident is sick
3 if the resident is going to be away from the resident’s residential premises for some time
An appointment of the operator of the retirement village (or a close associate of the operator or a person nominated by the operator) as an agent under this section is void.
An appointment—
may be made in a village contract or at any time after the day the contract commences; and
may be revoked at any time by the resident.
However, the appointment or revocation has no effect until it is notified in writing to the operator of the village.
The operator must give to the resident’s agent, until the time the appointment expires or is revoked, any notice or other document that the operator is required to give to the resident under a village contract or this Act.
A notice or other document that is required by this section to be given to the resident’s agent and that is not given to the agent, is taken not to have been given to the resident.
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