Agents Licensing Act 1979
68ABoard may suspend licence pending inquiry
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68A Board may suspend licence pending inquiry (1) Subject to this section, where the Board is to hold an inquiry referred to in section 68(4), it may, as it thinks fit, suspend the licence of the licensed agent to which the inquiry relates until the conclusion of that inquiry. (2) Where, under subsection (1), the Board suspends the licence of a licensed agent, the Registrar shall accordingly, by notice, inform the licensed agent and where the agent is: (a) an employee or director of a company which is a licensed agent – the company; or (b) an employee of a firm which is a licensed agent or a person by whom such a firm is constituted – the firm.
Agents Licensing Act 1979 52 (3) A suspension under subsection (1) does not take effect until the day immediately after the date on which the notice, under subsection (2), is given to the licensed agents.