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Settlement Agents Act 1981
Div 2Trust accounts
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Division 2 — Trust accounts
48. Terms used 41
49. Trust accounts etc. of licensees 41
49A. Client may ask settlement agent for separate trust account 43
49B. Interest on trust accounts 44
49C. Settlement agents to give Commissioner information about trust accounts 45
50. Receipts, accounts etc. by settlement agents 46
51. Audits of trust accounts 46
52. Date of audit, Commissioner may change 48
53. Auditors, qualification and approval of 49
54. Auditors, appointment of 50
55. Audit of business carried on at more than one place, directions as to 50
56. Approvals etc. under this Division, Commissioner’s power to cancel etc. 51
58. Audits, settlement agents’ duties and auditors’ powers as to 51
59. Audits, bankers’ duties as to 51
60. Auditors’ reports, content of 52
61. Moneys etc. held on trust, statement of by settlement agents 52
62. Auditor’s report to report breaches of law etc. 53
63. Auditors’ duty of confidentiality 54
64. Right of some persons to information in auditors’ reports 54
65. Offences under this Division 55
66. Auditors’ remuneration 55
67. Settlement agents with no accounts to audit 55
68. Accounts of firm or body corporate or settlement agent with branch office, effect of audits as to 56
69. Audit of trust account, Commissioner may do 56
70. Settlement agent to allow Commissioner’s auditor etc. to inspect accounts etc. 57
71. Cost of audit done under s. 69 57
72. Application of s. 63 to certain persons 57
73. Restraining bank etc. from dealing with settlement agent’s account, SAT’s powers as to 58
74. Suspension of settlement agents, appointment of supervisors etc., SAT’s powers as to 59
75. Effect of s. 74 orders appointing supervisor 61
76. Supervisors’ duties 62
77. Hindering etc. supervisors, offence 63
78. Discharge or variation of s. 73 or 74 order 64
79. SAT’s additional powers as to s. 73, 74 or 78 orders 64
80. Service of s. 73, 74, 78 and 79 orders; penalty for breach of 65
81. Banks etc., duty to disclose certain accounts etc. if required to by authorised person 67
81A. Information about trust accounts, Commissioner’s power to obtain 67