56False or misleading advertising, &c., by property agents

56 False or misleading advertising, &c., by property agents

[Section 56 Substituted by No. 40 of 2020, s. 19, Applied:04 May 2022]

(1)  A property agent must not represent in any way to someone else anything that is false or misleading in relation to the letting or sale of property.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(2)  It is a defence for a person charged with an offence against subsection (1) for the person to prove that, at the time when the representation was made, he or she believed, on reasonable grounds –

(a) in the case of an offence of false representation, that the representation was true; or

(b) in the case of an offence of misleading representation, that the representation was not misleading.