12Disciplinary action

12 Disciplinary action

(1)  Where the Director determines that there are grounds for taking disciplinary action against a land valuer, the Director may, by order, do one or more of the following:

(a) prohibit the land valuer from carrying on business as a land valuer;

(b) prohibit the land valuer from being employed or otherwise engaged in the business of a land valuer;

(c) prohibit the land valuer from being a director of a body corporate that is a land valuer;

(d) reprimand the land valuer;

(e) require the land valuer to pay the reasonable costs of the hearing or any investigation conducted for the purposes of the hearing, or both.

(2)  The Director may order that a prohibition is to apply –

(a) permanently; or

(b) for a specified period; or

(c) until the fulfilment of any conditions specified in the order; or

(d) until further order.

(3)  An order may provide that it is to have effect at a specified time and impose conditions as to the conduct of the land valuer who is subject to the order or that person’s business until that time.

(4)  An order takes effect on the day on which it is served on the land valuer to whom it relates.

(5)  If an amount ordered to be paid by a land valuer as costs under subsection (1)(e) is not paid as directed by the order, that amount may be recovered by the Director as a debt due to the Crown in any court of competent jurisdiction.