New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL (LAND LEASE) COMMUNITIES ACT 2013 - SECT 55

55 Mandatory education briefing for new operators

(1) This section applies to a person who becomes the operator of a community after the commencement of this section.

(2) Within 30 days after the operator's name is inserted in the Register--

(a) if the operator is an individual--the operator must undertake an education briefing approved by the Commissioner, or

(b) if the operator is not an individual--the operator must arrange for a nominated person involved in the day-to-day management of the community to undertake an education briefing approved by the Commissioner.

(3) The operator must notify the Commissioner in writing within 7 days of the completion of the education briefing that it has been undertaken and completed.

(4) The operator must not, in purported compliance with subsection (3), provide to the Commissioner any information that the operator knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

(5) The regulations may specify circumstances when an operator is not required to undertake or arrange for the education briefing.

Note : The regulations could, for example, provide that an operator is not required to undertake the briefing when he or she was the operator of another community within a certain period.

(6) The education briefing may consist of one or more sessions, and may be conducted in any way the Commissioner thinks appropriate (for example, by a seminar or over the internet).

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.