Queensland Consolidated Acts

MANUFACTURED HOMES (RESIDENTIAL PARKS) ACT 2003 - SECT 53

53 Sale of home or personal effects

(1) This section applies if, under a sale order, a park owner is authorised to sell a manufactured home positioned on a site or a home owner’s personal effects.

(2) The park owner does not incur any liability for selling the home or personal effects, or removing the personal effects from the home or site, if the park owner acts honestly and without negligence.

(3) A person who buys the home or personal effects acquires a good title to the home or personal effects, and the interest of anyone else in the home or personal effect ends, unless the person buying the home or personal effects did not act honestly in the purchase.

(4) The park owner must not sell the home or personal effects to a prohibited person unless the tribunal authorises the sale under subsection (5) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(5) On application by the park owner, the tribunal may make an order authorising the park owner to sell the home or personal effects to a prohibited person on the conditions, if any, stated in the order.

(6) In this section—

"associate" , of the park owner, means an employee or relative of the park owner.

"prohibited person" means the park owner or an associate of the park owner.

"relative" , of the park owner, includes someone connected to the park owner by a spousal relationship or step-relationship.