25L   Functions

(1)  The functions of the Retirement Villages Advisory Council are to advise the Minister:

(a)  as to such issues relating to retirement villages as it thinks fit or as are referred to it by the Minister, and

(b)  in particular:

(i)  as to the development of policy relating to retirement villages and the retirement village industry, and

(ii)  as to any issues relevant to any legislation administered by the Minister for Fair Trading and relating to retirement villages or the retirement village industry.

(2)  In this section:

retirement village has the same meaning as it has in the Retirement Villages Act 1999.

retirement village industry includes:

(a)  the businesses of designing, developing, managing, operating and providing services to retirement villages, and

(b)  any other business prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition,

      but does not include any business declared by the regulations to be excluded from this definition.