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ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
QUESTION NO 1348
Retirement Village Industry - Code of Practice
Mr CORNWELL - Asked the Attorney General upon notice on 23 August 1994
In relation to Recommendation 11 of the Report No. 2 (Aged Accommodation and Support Services in the ACT) of the Standing Committee on Social Policy, namely that the retirement village industry draw up its own self-regulatory code and if the code is not forthcoming within a reasonable time frame, the Government consider legislation -
(1) What has happened in respect of this recommendation.
(2) Is the Government considering such legislation, given that the report was brought down in December 1992.
Mr CONNOLLY - The answer to the members question is as follows:
(1), Following the recommendation by the Standing Committee on
Social Policy, the Aged Services Association of NSW and the ACT
Inc have recently submitted to the Government a copy of their draft
ACT code of practice for the retirement village industry.
This code is closely modelled on the current NSW code of practice for the industry. However, I am advised that there are a number of major departures between the NSW code and the draft ACT code including the following:
• the drafting of the ACT code is incomplete. The draft still has a number of "blank" spaces left in it, apparently to be filled in at a later stage.
• the NSW code is complimented in that State by the Retirement Villages Act and the disputes arising out of the code are able to be heard in the Commercial Tribunal; and
• the NSW code is a mandatory code approved under the
NSW Fair Trading Act (1987) NSW.
2. Yes, having regard to the problems identified in the draft self
regulatory code as presented by the industry I have asked the Director
of Consumer Affairs to prepare a Code of Practice applicable to the
retirement village industry. This code will be a mandatory code
established under the Fair Trading Act 1992.
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