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SOCIAL SERVICES REGULATION ACT 2021 (NO. 37 OF 2021) - SECT 238

Cooling off period

    (1)     A resident may rescind a prohibited transaction in relation to real or personal property or a reportable transaction between the resident and the provider, or a close associate of the provider within the cooling off period.

    (2)     During the cooling off period, a provider, or a close associate of the provider, as the case requires, who is a party to a transaction must not have any other dealings with the property to which the transaction relates.

Penalty:     120 penalty units, in the case of an individual;

    600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

    (3)     This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any Act other than the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 .

    (4)     In this section—

"cooling off period", in relation to a transaction, whether or not a prohibited transaction or reportable transaction, means the period ending 5 days after the day on which the transaction was entered into.



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