178Meaning of long term occupant

178 Meaning of long term occupant (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. (3) Also subsection (1) applies whether or not: (a) the person has resided in the caravan park under an arrangement started before, on or after 1 May 2012; and

Caravan Parks Act 2012 86 (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.