Western Australian Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1992 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Retirement Villages Act 1992 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^{1a, 2}. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Retirement Villages Act 1992	34 of 1992	19 Jun 1992	s. 1 and 2: 19 Jun 1992; Act other than s. 1 and 2: 10 Jul 1992 (see s. 2 and Gazette 10 Jul 1992 p. 3185)
Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11	6 of 1993	27 Aug 1993	1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))
Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994 s. 19	32 of 1994	29 Jun 1994	1 Oct 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Sep 1994 p. 4948)
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 s. 4	14 of 1996	28 Jun 1996	1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2)
Financial Legislation Amendment Act 1996 s. 64	49 of 1996	25 Oct 1996	25 Oct 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Transfer of Land Amendment Act 1996 s. 153(1)	81 of 1996	14 Nov 1996	14 Nov 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Trustees Amendment Act 1997 s. 18	1 of 1997	6 May 1997	16 Jun 1997 (see s. 2 and Gazette 10 Jun 1997 p. 2661)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 39(10) and 104	57 of 1997	15 Dec 1997	15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))
Reprint of the Retirement Villages Act 1992 as at 22 Jan 1999 (includes amendments listed above)
State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 60(1)	43 of 2000	2 Nov 2000	17 Feb 2001 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 16 Feb 2001 p. 903)
Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001 s. 220	10 of 2001	28 Jun 2001	15 Jul 2001 (see s. 2 and Gazette 29 Jun 2001 p. 3257 and Cwlth Gazette 13 Jul 2001 No. S285)
Acts Amendment (Equality of Status) Act 2003 Pt. 52	28 of 2003	22 May 2003	1 Jul 2003 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 2003 p. 2579)
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Courts and Legal Practice) Act 2003 s. 62	65 of 2003	4 Dec 2003	1 Jan 2004 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Dec 2003 p. 5722)
State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 2 Div. 113 3, 4	55 of 2004	24 Nov 2004	1 Jan 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7130)
Reprint 2: The Retirement Villages Act 1992 as at 1 Apr 2005 (includes amendments listed above)
Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 4 Div. 21 5	28 of 2006	26 Jun 2006	1 Jul 2006 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Jun 2006 p. 2347)
Consumer Protection Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 Pt. 10	69 of 2006	13 Dec 2006	14 Jul 2007 (see s. 2 and Gazette 13 Jul 2007 p. 3453)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Reprint 3: The Retirement Villages Act 1992 as at 10 Oct 2008 (includes amendments listed above)
Statutes (Repeals and Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2009 s. 110	8 of 2009	21 May 2009	22 May 2009 (see s. 2(b))

Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 4	19 of 2010	28 Jun 2010	11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)
Acts Amendment (Fair Trading) Act 2010 s. 190 and 199	58 of 2010	8 Dec 2010	1 Jan 2011 (see s. 2(c) and Gazette 24 Dec 2010 p. 6805)
Building Act 2011 s. 171	24 of 2011	11 Jul 2011	2 Apr 2012 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 13 Mar 2012 p. 1033)

^1a On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 60(2) 6	43 of 2000	2 Nov 2000	To be proclaimed (see s. 2(2))

² The Courts Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 45 was repealed by the Criminal Law and Evidence Amendment Act 2008 s. 77(13).

³ The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28 and 42 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.

⁴ The State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 37 reads as follows:

37. Retirement Villages Act 1992

(1) In this regulation —

commencement day means the day on which the State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Part 2 Division 113 comes into operation.

(2) If a matter being dealt with under the Retirement Villages Act 1992 by the Retirement Villages Disputes Tribunal before the commencement day is transferred to the Tribunal under the Act section 167(4)(b) —

(a) the Act section 39 does not apply; and

(b) the matter is to be dealt with by the Tribunal as if the Retirement Villages Act 1992 section 47 in force immediately before the commencement day continued to apply and a reference in that section to the Tribunal were a reference to the State Administrative Tribunal.

⁵ The Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 4 Div. 23 (other than s. 151) (as amended by Acts Amendment (Fair Trading) Act 2010 s. 184) reads as follows:

Division 23 — Transitional provisions

[151. Deleted by No. 58 of 2010 s. 184.]

152. Commissioner for Corporate Affairs and Registrar of Co-operative and Financial Institutions

(1) A thing done or omitted to be done by, to or in relation to, the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs before commencement under, or for the purposes of, the Companies (Co-operative) Act 1943 has the same effect after commencement as if it had been done or omitted by, to or in relation to, the Registrar as defined in that Act as in force after commencement.

(2) A thing done or omitted to be done by, to or in relation to, the Registrar of Co-operative and Financial Institutions before commencement under, or for the purposes of, the Co-operative and Provident Societies Act 1903 has the same effect after commencement as if it had been done or omitted by, to or in relation to, the Registrar as defined in that Act as in force after commencement.

153. Consumer Affairs Act 1971

Each office in existence immediately before commencement because of section 15(1) of the Consumer Affairs Act 1971 does not cease merely because that subsection is repealed by this Act.

154. Petroleum Products Pricing Act 1983

Each office in existence immediately before commencement because of section 5(2)(b) of the Petroleum Products Pricing Act 1983 does not cease merely because that paragraph is deleted by this Act.

155. Interpretation

In this Division —

commencement means the time at which this Division comes into operation;

Commissioner for Fair Trading means the Commissioner for Fair Trading referred to in section 15 of the Consumer Affairs Act 1971 as in force before commencement;

Prices Commissioner means the Prices Commissioner referred to in section 5(1) of the Petroleum Products Pricing Act 1983 as in force before commencement.

⁶ On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 60(2) had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

60. Retirement Villages Act 1992 amended

(2) Section 25(1)(g)(i) of the Retirement Villages Act 1992 is amended by deleting “, and in particular his or her rights, if any, under the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938”.

The section that it seeks to amend has been repealed.

Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
administering body 3(1)
code 3(1)
commencement date Sch. 1 cl. 3(2)
Commissioner 3(1)
Department 3(1)
executive officer 7A(3)
information 11A(3)
officer 79(2)
owner 3(1), 13(7)
premium 3(1)
recurrent charge 3(1)
Registrar of Titles 3(1)
residence contract 3(1)
residence rules 3(1)
resident 3(1), 9(8)
residential premises 3(1)
residential tenancy agreement 3(1)
retired person 3(1)
retirement village 3(1)
retirement village scheme 3(1)
scheme 3(1)
service 19(7)
service contract 3(1)
successor in title 17(3)
working day 3(1)