Retirement Villages Act 2012
117Certain limitations on proxies
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117 Certain limitations on proxies (1) If a person holds appointments as the proxy of 2 residents (or any other number of residents prescribed by regulation) in any 1 retirement village at any 1 time, the appointment of the person as proxy of another resident of the village, while the person continues to hold the other appointments, is void. (2) An appointment of a person as the proxy of a resident of a retirement (a) may be revoked at any time by the appointor by written notice to the person; and (b) if it is not revoked, ends— (i) after the first meeting at which it is exercised; or (ii) if it is not exercised during the period of 6 months immediately following the day the appointment is made— on the end of that period.
(3) Nothing in this section prevents a resident of a retirement village from reappointing a person as the resident’s proxy after the revocation or ending of an appointment. (4) This section does not apply to residents of a retirement village that is subject to a units plan. Note For proxy votes for residents of a retirement village that is subject to a units plan, see the Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011, sch 3, s 3.26.