Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) The purpose of this Part is to create specific rights for persons residing in residential services and to impose specific obligations on disability service providers providing residential services—
(a) whilst enabling the support needs of persons with a disability to be met and the obligations of disability service providers to be fulfilled;
(b) which balance the rights and needs of individuals and the demands of providing disability services throughout the State of Victoria;
(c) which apply regardless of whether the disability service provider is the owner or landlord of the property where the residential services are provided.
(2) The Residential Tenancies Act 1997 does not apply in respect of residential services.
(3) The regulations may provide that a prescribed class of disability service provider is, subject to any prescribed conditions, exempted from complying with prescribed provisions of this Part specified in respect of that prescribed class of disability service provider.
(4) This Part does not apply in respect of persons residing in residential treatment facilities and the provision of residential services in residential treatment facilities.