Access for emergency and home care services
38H Access for emergency and home care services
The retirement village operator must take reasonable steps to ensure that vehicular access to premises in the retirement village is available at any time to any person belonging to any of the following classes—
emergency workers who are on duty;
approved providers who are providing home care at premises in the retirement village;
NDIS providers who are providing supports or services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme at premises in the retirement village.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
For the purposes of this section, emergency workers are on duty if they are on duty for the purposes of section 10AA(9) of the Sentencing Act 1991.
In this section—
approved provider has the same meaning as it has in the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018 of the Commonwealth;
emergency worker has the same meaning as it has in section 10AA(8) of the Sentencing Act 1991;
home care has the same meaning as in the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;
National Disability Insurance Scheme has the same meaning as it has in the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 of the Commonwealth;
NDIS provider has the same meaning as it has in the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 of the Commonwealth.
Pt 6B (Heading and s. 38I) inserted by No. 4/2005 s. 16, amended by No. 23/2016 s. 33, repealed by No. 19/2025 s. 53.
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Pt 6C (Heading and ss 38J–38L) inserted by No. 4/2005 s. 16.
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