Fair Trading have issued the guidelines listed below. They are expected to be formally gazetted on 1 July 2019 and to be published on the Fair Trading website by Friday 28 June 2019.

The guidelines are designed to provide operators with information as to how they can best comply with requirements of the Retirement Villages (Amendment) Act 2018.

Guidelines for retirement village operators:

• Village contract information meeting – can be viewed HERE
• Annual auditing of retirement village accounts – can be viewed HERE
• Emergency plan and annual evacuation exercises –  can be viewed HERE