New Zealand Legislation: Acts

6 Rest home care defined

• (1) This subsection applies to services that—

  • (a) are residential care provided for the care or support of, or to promote the independence of, people who are frail (whether because of their age or for some other reason); and

  • (b) neither include nor are provided together with geriatric services.

  (2) In this Act, rest home care means services to which subsection (1) applies that are provided for 3 or more people unrelated by blood or marriage (or by or through a civil union or a de facto relationship) to the person providing the services—

  • (a) in premises held out by the person providing the services as being principally a residence for people who are frail because of their age; and

  • (b) in consideration of payment (whether made or to be made, and whether by the Crown, the people for whom the services are provided, or any other person).

  Section 6(2): amended, on 26 April 2005, by section 7 of the Relationships (Statutory References) Act 2005 (2005 No 3).