New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL (LAND LEASE) COMMUNITIES ACT 2013 - SECT 46

46 Right of home owner to appoint agent

(1) A home owner may appoint a person as the home owner's agent for the purpose of receiving notices or other documents to be given to the home owner under a site agreement or under this Act.

Note : For example, a home owner may wish to appoint an agent if the home owner cannot read or write English, is sick, or is going to be away from his or her home for some time.

(2) An appointment of the operator of the community (or a close associate of the operator or a person nominated by the operator) as an agent under this section is of no effect.

(3) An appointment under this section--

(a) may be made in a site agreement or at any time after the agreement commences, and

(b) may be revoked at any time by the home owner,

but any such appointment or revocation has no effect until it is notified in writing to the operator.

(4) The operator must give to the agent appointed by a home owner, until such time as the appointment expires or is revoked, any notices or other documents that the operator is required to give to the home owner under a site agreement or this Act.

(5) A notice or other document that is required by this section to be given to the agent appointed by the home owner and that is not so given is taken not to have been given to the home owner.