Property Agents and Land Transactions Act 2016
27Qualifications for general auctioneer licence
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27 Qualifications for general auctioneer licence
A person is qualified to be granted a general auctioneer licence if –
(a) the person's name has been in Part 3 of the Register at any time during the 5-year period immediately preceding the licence application; or
(b) in the case of a natural person, the person –
(i) [Section 27 Amended by No. 40 of 2020, s. 8, Applied:04 May 2022] has the qualifications required to be held by the person that are specified in a determination made and in force under section 28A(1)(c) ; or
(ii) satisfies the Board, by examination or inquiry, that the person has sufficient knowledge and experience of general auctioneering business to be able to carry on that business; or
(c) in the case of a company, one of its directors holds a general auctioneer licence; or
(d) the person –
(i) has, at any time during the 5-year period immediately preceding the application, been authorised under the law of another State or a Territory of Australia to carry on general auctioneering business in that State or Territory; and
(ii) has been employed full time in general auctioneering business in another State or a Territory of Australia for a total period of at least 2 years during the 5-year period immediately preceding the licence application; and
(iii) [Section 27 Amended by No. 40 of 2020, s. 8, Applied:04 May 2022] except in the case of a company, has satisfied the Board, by examination or inquiry, that he or she has sufficient knowledge and experience as a general auctioneer to be able to carry on that business.