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Property Occupations Act 2014
sec.151Acting as real estate salesperson
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### sec.151 Acting as real estate salesperson
A person must not act as a real estate salesperson unless the person holds a registration certificate.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
A person does not act as a real estate salesperson merely because the person, while performing duties as an employee of a real estate agent at the real estate agent’s registered office or other place of business—
collects, and issues receipts for, rents; or
gives a person a list, prepared by or for the real estate agent, of premises available for rent; or
does something of an administrative nature relating to a thing the real estate agent does as a real estate agent.
In this section—
act as a real estate salesperson , for a person, includes hold out that the person is a real estate salesperson.
(sec.151-ssec.1) A person must not act as a real estate salesperson unless the person holds a registration certificate. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
(sec.151-ssec.2) A person does not act as a real estate salesperson merely because the person, while performing duties as an employee of a real estate agent at the real estate agent’s registered office or other place of business— collects, and issues receipts for, rents; or gives a person a list, prepared by or for the real estate agent, of premises available for rent; or does something of an administrative nature relating to a thing the real estate agent does as a real estate agent.
(sec.151-ssec.3) In this section— act as a real estate salesperson , for a person, includes hold out that the person is a real estate salesperson.
- (a) collects, and issues receipts for, rents; or
- (b) gives a person a list, prepared by or for the real estate agent, of premises available for rent; or
- (c) does something of an administrative nature relating to a thing the real estate agent does as a real estate agent.