29BDuties of agents and officers in effective control

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.