33Obtaining information for purposes of audit

33 Obtaining information for purposes of audit

(1)  An auditor employed by a conveyancer under section 30 may require the conveyancer or any other person who is able to do so –

(a) to produce all the accounts (whether or not trust accounts) relating to the business of the conveyancer and all documents relating to those accounts; and

(b) to provide any relevant information relating to the operation of the accounts.

(2)  The manager or other principal officer of an authorised deposit-taking institution in which a conveyancer has deposited money, whether in his or her own account or in a general or separate trust account, must, on being required to do so by an auditor under subsection (1) , disclose every such account, and provide any documents relating to that account, as required by the auditor.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(3)  A person who is required by this section to produce documents to an auditor must permit the auditor to make a copy of the whole, or any part, of those documents.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.

(4)  In this section –

conveyancer includes a former conveyancer;

document includes, but is not limited to, a document required to be kept under section 19 in respect of the receipt and disposition of trust money.