Debt Collectors (Field Agents and Collection Agents) Act 2014
sec.22Responsibility for acts and omissions of subagents
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sec.22 Responsibility for acts and omissions of subagents
A principal field agent must take reasonable steps to ensure each of the agent’s employees who is a subagent is properly supervised and complies with this Act. An employed field agent who is in charge of a regulated business must take reasonable steps to ensure each of the business’s employees who are subagents is properly supervised and comply with this Act. A contravention of subsection (1) or (2) is a ground for making an order against a field agent under section 116 . (sec.22-ssec.1) A principal field agent must take reasonable steps to ensure each of the agent’s employees who is a subagent is properly supervised and complies with this Act. (sec.22-ssec.2) An employed field agent who is in charge of a regulated business must take reasonable steps to ensure each of the business’s employees who are subagents is properly supervised and comply with this Act. A contravention of subsection (1) or (2) is a ground for making an order against a field agent under section 116 .