auditor means a person practising as a public accountant who is a member of –
(a) the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants; or
(b) the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia; or
(c) the Institute of Public Accountants in Australia;
authorised place of business, in respect of a real estate agent named in Part 1(1) of the Register, a property manager named in Part 2(1) of the Register or a general auctioneer named in Part 3(1) of the Register, means a place shown in the Register as a place where the agent, manager or auctioneer may carry on, respectively, real estate agency business, property management business or general auctioneering business;
Board means the Property Agents Board continued under section 5 ;
business, in respect of the sale or purchase of a business, includes a share in a business and the goodwill of a business, but does not include a share in the capital of a company;
Code of Conduct or "Code" means the Code of Conduct referred to in section 84 ;
company means a body corporate wherever incorporated;
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deemed registration
Mutual Recognition Act 1992
document means any record of information, and includes –
(a) anything on which there is writing; and
(b) anything on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and
(c) anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else; and
(d) a map, plan, drawing or photograph –
and a reference in this Act to a document (as so defined) includes a reference to –
(e) any part of the document; and
(f) any copy, reproduction or duplicate of the document or of any part of the document; and
(g) any part of such a copy, reproduction or duplicate;
employ includes engage under a contract for services;
functions of a property representative includes all or any of the following functions performed by a person while in the employ of a real estate agent or property manager:
(a) inducing or attempting to induce, or negotiating with a view to inducing, people to do all or any of the following:
(i) acquire or dispose of property or a business;
(ii) make an offer to acquire or dispose of property;
(iii) make an offer to acquire or dispose of a business;
(iv) enter into a contract for the acquisition or disposal of property;
(v) enter into a contract for the acquisition or disposal of a business;
(b) negotiating the leasing or letting of property;
(c) collecting rents for property that is leased or let;
(d) managing property that is leased or let;
general auctioneer means a person who holds a valid general auctioneer licence;
general auctioneering business means business as an auctioneer where the property auctioned does not include land;
name, in respect of a real estate agent named in Part 1(1) of the Register, a property manager named in Part 2(1) of the Register or a general auctioneer named in Part 3(1) of the Register, means the name shown in the Register as a name by which the agent, manager or auctioneer may carry on, respectively, real estate agency business, property management business or general auctioneering business;
owner, in respect of property, means the person who holds the legal title to it, that person's successors and assigns and an agent of that person;
sale means a disposition of property for valuable consideration;
scheme of arrangement means a scheme of arrangement referred to in section 147 ;
statutory authority means a body or authority, whether incorporated or not, that is established or constituted by or under an Act or under the royal prerogative, being a body or authority which, or of which the governing authority, wholly or partly comprises a person or persons appointed by the Governor, a Minister or another statutory authority, but does not include an Agency, within the meaning of the State Service Act 2000 ;