Queensland Resident Operated Retirement Villages Support Service

The Department of Housing and Public Works (the department) has issued this Invitation to Offer to establish a service to assist 10 resident-operated retirement villages to:

• understand their responsibilities under the Retirement Villages Act 1999 (RV Act) and relevant laws
• obtain independent legal and financial advice about alternative corporate structures if they do not wish to be regulated by the RV Act (for example, de-register as a retirement village and operate as a community titles scheme)
• progress a resident-operated village’s decision to change corporate structure, including attending to any application, registration or other requirement, including seeking an exemption from the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 to restrict entry to the village to older people
• provide on-going assistance to resident-operators and residents to transition to a new corporate structure or continue to operate as a retirement village, including assistance to market and sell units and assist those operating as a retirement village to apply to QCAT to seek an appropriate order under s.171A of the RV Act if required.

For detailed information on the Project Specific Requirements sought under this tender, please review the "Project Specific Requirements" in "Section 3 of the Invitation to Offer.