Agents Act 2003
9Carrying on business as stock and station agent
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9 Carrying on business as stock and station agent (1) A person carries on business as a stock and station agent if the person provides, or offers to provide, a stock and station agent service for a principal for reward. (2) Each of the following is a stock and station agent service: (a) buying, selling (other than by auction), exchanging, leasing, assigning or otherwise disposing of rural land; (b) negotiating with, or inducing or attempting to induce, a person to— (i) buy, sell, exchange, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of rural land; or contract to buy, sell, exchange, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of rural land; (c) introducing a buyer or lessee of rural land to another licensed agent or to the owner, or an agent of the owner, of rural land; (d) collecting payments under a lease of rural land; (e) managing rural property under a lease; (f) buying, selling (including by auction) or otherwise disposing of livestock; (g) negotiating with , or inducing or attempting to induce, a person to— (i) buy, sell, auction, exchange or otherwise dispose of livestock; or contract to buy, sell, auction, exchange or otherwise dispose of livestock;
(h) providing agistment for livestock or collecting fees for the agistment of livestock; (i) any other service prescribed by regulation for this section. lessee includes prospective lessee. livestock means animals raised or kept for profit.