Retirement Villages Act 2012
91Operator to provide safe premises
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91 Operator to provide safe premises (1) The operator of a retirement village must ensure that the village generally is reasonably safe. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the operator must— (a) prepare written safety and emergency procedures; and (b) take reasonable steps to ensure that all residents and staff are familiar with those procedures; and (c) provide emergency assembly point signage consistent with those procedures; and
(d) provide signage at key points in the village to assist local emergency and home care service agencies to locate village (e) give residents an emergency out-of-hours number to contact the operator in case of serious disturbances in the village; and (f) do a safety inspection at least once each year, and make a safety inspection report on the findings of the inspection; and (g) make a copy of the inspection report available to the residents committee for the retirement village (if any) and place a copy of the report on the notice board in a communal area within the (h) take any other action prescribed by regulation to ensure that the village generally is reasonably safe. (3) Without limiting subsection (2) (h), a regulation may provide for the (a) the form of the written safety and emergency procedures; (b) the conduct of safety inspections required under subsection (2) (f); (c) the manner and form of a safety inspection report; (d) the period that the safety inspection report must remain on the notice board as mentioned in subsection (2) (g). (4) A resident who believes on reasonable grounds that the retirement village is not reasonably safe may apply to the ACAT for any of the (a) an order directing the operator to comply with subsection (1) or (2); (b) any other order mentioned in section 181 (1) (ACAT orders).