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Estate Agents Act 1980
29BDuties of agents and officers in effective control
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29B Duties of agents and officers in effective control
(1) This section applies to a natural person—
(a) who is a licensed estate agent who carries on an estate agency business; or
(b) who is an officer in effective control of the estate agency business of a corporation.
(2) The person must—
(a) be regularly and usually in charge at the principal office of the estate agent; and
(b) give regular and substantial attendance at that office; and
(c) properly control and supervise any estate agency business carried on by the agent or for which the person is responsible; and
(d) take reasonable steps to ensure that any estate agents, agents' representatives or other employees of the business comply with the provisions of this Act, the **Sale of Land Act 1962** and any other laws relevant to the conduct of the business while they are engaged in that business; and
(e) establish procedures designed to ensure that the business is conducted in accordance with the law and good estate agency practice; and
(f) monitor the conduct of the business in a manner that will ensure, as far as is practicable, that those procedures are complied with; and
(g) properly control and supervise the management of any branch office of the estate agency business.
S. 29C inserted by No. 41/2003 s. 28.