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Agents Act 2003
8Carrying on business as real estate agent
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8 Carrying on business as real estate agent
(1) A person carries on business as a real estate agent if the person
provides, or offers to provide, a real estate agent service for a
principal for reward.
(2) Each of the following is a real estate agent service:
(a) buying, selling (other than by auction), exchanging, leasing,
assigning or otherwise disposing of land;
(b) negotiating with, or inducing or attempting to induce, a person
to—
(i) buy, sell, exchange, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of
land; or
contract to buy, sell, exchange, lease, assign or otherwise
dispose of land;
(c) collecting payments under a lease;
(d) managing property under a lease;
(e) collecting payments under a mortgage of land or payments
under a terms contract for land;
(f) acting as manager of an owners corporation for a units plan;
(g) any other service prescribed by regulation for this section.
(3) To remove any doubt, a person does not carry on business as a real
estate agent only because the person carries on business as a stock
and station agent.