Caravan Parks Act 2012

(1) A person is a long term occupant if the person is a party to an arrangement under which he or she has resided in a caravan park for more than 5 years.

(2) Subsection (1) applies even if the person is or was absent from the caravan park (including, for example, by taking a holiday or break) as long as the person pays or paid rent for the period of the absence.

(a) the person has resided in the caravan park under an arrangement started before, on or after 1 May 2012; and

(b) the arrangement is a caravan park agreement, an excluded agreement or otherwise; and

(c) the operator of the caravan park was the operator at the time the arrangement started; and

(d) the arrangement (whether written or not, including a caravan park agreement or an excluded agreement) provides otherwise.

(4) The day a person becomes a long term occupant is the change date in relation to the long term occupant and, for some long term occupants, the change date may be 1 May 2012.