New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 58B

58B Annual emergency evacuation exercises and key safety information display

(1) The operator of a retirement village must ensure that--

(a) an evacuation exercise for residents is carried out at least once each calendar year, and

(b) key safety information is clearly displayed in communal areas within the retirement village, and

(c) key safety information is provided to residents in relation to their residential premises within the retirement village.

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) or 100 penalty units (in any other case).

Note : Section 189B enables the Secretary to issue guidelines to assist operators in complying with their obligations under this section. The Tribunal may take guidelines into account in determining whether there has been compliance with this section.

(2) Each of the following is
"key safety information" for the purposes of subsection (1)--

(a) a map indicating the location of assembly areas, exits and fire extinguishers and other emergency equipment for the communal areas and residential premises concerned,

(b) instructions concerning the evacuation of residents and staff from the communal areas and residential premises concerned in the event of a fire or other emergency,

(c) any other information of a kind prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following--

(a) the conduct of evacuation exercises,

(b) the display and provision of key safety information.

(4) A resident of a retirement village who believes in good faith that the operator is contravening subsection (1) may apply to the Tribunal for (and the Tribunal may make) any of the following--

(a) an order directing the operator to comply with subsection (1),

(b) any other order referred to in section 128 (1).

(5) Nothing in this section limits the obligations of an operator of a retirement village under sections 58 and 58A.