Labor MLA Mary Porter will table new legislation in the Assembly next week which will replace earlier proposed laws that had been six years in the making and provoked savage criticism from village operators and concern from residents groups.

In a bid to get retirees and the owners of their complexes to agree to new regulations, Ms Porter says the government has simply adopted existing NSW laws and will try to pass them by August.

But Opposition Leader Zed Seselja condemned Ms Porter's handling of the reform, pointing to industry submissions released by the government last week that showed serious worries about scheme as far back as 2010.

In the submissions, the peak industry lobby group the Retirement Village Association argued that the present system, a code of conduct that is difficult to enforce, was working and one operator, Lend Lease, said it would never have entered the ACT market if it had known that legislation was coming.

Retirement village residents who made submissions were broadly supportive of the changes although they did call for many changes to details of the bill.

Mr Seselja said the reforms should have been the responsibility of one of the government's frontbench team.

''This complex and important bill is clearly not a job for a backbencher and should have been treated much more seriously by ACT Labor from the start, instead of wasting the industry's time on a counterproductive plan,'' Mr Seselja said.

''ACT Labor has once again given a backbencher what should be a ministerial responsibility, and has shown disdain for the retirement village industry in the process.

''I urge ACT Labor not to prioritise Ms Porter's re-election over the retirement village industry by rushing through a new version of the poorly concocted reforms before October.''

But Ms Porter said she invited the Opposition Leader to a briefing last week and that Mr Seselja did not show up, sending two staffers instead.

Copying the NSW laws would allow the territory to benefit from the state's practical experience.

''The feedback that we have now NSW has a lot of amendments to its bill which has changed the landscape considerably, the NSW is now more in alignment with what I was trying to achieve,'' Ms Porter said.

''So we're proceeding with a new bill, and I will table that next Wednesday hopefully.

''NSW had the same as we had here, they had a code, but there was no way of enforcing it.''

The backbencher said she believed the NSW laws were the best hope for compromise between residents and industry.

''Their retirement village residents wanted more regulation, the industry wanted less and what I was planning to do was to achieve a level playing field,'' she said.

''So it's not a pro-residents bill and its not a pro-industry bill, it's a level playing field.''

The bill will contain enforceable provisions to deal with disputes in retirement villages over maintenance, money and matters arising when residents want to leave villages.