Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002
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41 Exemptions
(1) The following persons are exempted from the requirement to hold an agent licence:
(a) [Section 41 Subsection (1) amended by No. 39 of 2010, s. 38, Applied:01 Jul 2011] a person acting in good faith in an office created by an Act of the Commonwealth or of this State or any other State or a Territory while carrying out any activity of a commercial agent or an inquiry agent;
(b) [Section 41 Subsection (1) amended by No. 39 of 2010, s. 38, Applied:01 Jul 2011] a person acting in good faith in an office under the Crown in the right of the Commonwealth or of this State or any other State or a Territory while carrying out any activity of a commercial agent or an inquiry agent;
(c) [Section 41 Subsection (1) amended by No. 66 of 2007, Sched. 1, Applied:31 Dec 2008] an Australian legal practitioner acting in the ordinary course of his or her profession, or a clerk employed by an Australian legal practitioner acting in the ordinary course of that employment, while carrying out any activity of a commercial agent or an inquiry agent;
(d) [Section 41 Subsection (1) amended by No. 20 of 2013, s. 83, Applied:20 Jun 2013] a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants or the Institute of Public Accountants acting in the ordinary course of his or her profession while carrying out any activity of a commercial agent or an inquiry agent;
(e) a trustee company, a building society, a friendly society, or a person carrying on the business of insurance, insurance broking or banking, acting in the ordinary course of that business, or an employee of such a company, society or person acting in the ordinary course of that employment, while carrying out any activity of a commercial agent or an inquiry agent;
(f) a person employed by the holder of a licence to perform clerical or secretarial functions acting in the ordinary course of that employment while carrying out any activity of a commercial agent or an inquiry agent;
(g) a person employed by a commercial agent for the purpose of debt collection by telephone acting in the ordinary course of that employment;