140Compensation for relocation

140 Compensation for relocation

140 Compensation for relocation

(1) This section applies if, after and in consequence of receiving a termination notice given by an operator (the first operator), a home owner decides to relocate to another community and the other community is operated by a different operator.

(2) The first operator is liable—

(a) to pay in advance the likely reasonable costs of the following—

(i) removing the home from the old residential site (including the costs of disconnecting any services),

(ii) transporting the home, and the possessions of its occupants, to the new residential site,

(iii) installing the home at the new residential site (including the costs of connecting to the available services),

(iv) repairing any damage to the home arising from its relocation,

(v) landscaping the new residential site so as to bring it up to the condition of the old residential site, and

(b) to pay any additional reasonable costs incurred for those purposes after the relocation is complete.

(3) The costs are payable to or at the direction of the person who was the home owner who received the termination notice.

(4) The Tribunal may, on application by a home owner or operator, make an order resolving a dispute concerning the operation of this section in the circumstances of a particular case.