Principles
1A Principles
In providing retirement village services and in the operation and occupation of retirement villages, proprietors, operators and residents of retirement villages should give effect to the principles set out in subsection (2).
The following principles apply to the provision of retirement village services, and the operation and occupation of retirement villages—
a resident's preference to remain in a retirement village should be respected;
all residents should be treated with dignity and respect;
decisions about a resident's personal life, financial affairs and property, should be made consistently with the will of the resident or, if the resident has appointed a person as an attorney or appointed a person to make decisions on the resident's behalf, that person;
the retirement village should be kept safe and maintained in a reasonable state of repair;
residents should have quiet enjoyment of their premises in the retirement village.
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