(1) In this Part,
"commercial agent activity" means any of the following activities--
(a)
"debt collection" , which is--
(i) any activity carried out by a person on
behalf of a second person (not being his or her employer) in the exercise of
the second person's rights under a debt owed by a third person, or
(ii) any
activity carried out by a person on his or her own behalf in the exercise of
rights acquired from a second person (otherwise than in the course of an
acquisition or merger of businessinterests) under a debt owed by a third
person,
being an activity that involves finding the third person or
requesting, demanding or collecting from the third person money due under the
debt,
(b)
"process serving" , which is any activity carried out by a person on behalf of
a second person (not being his or her employer), being an activity that
involves serving legal process on a third person in relation to legal
proceedings to which the second and third persons are, or are intended to be,
parties, regardless of which jurisdiction the legal proceedings are, or are
intended to be, held in,
(c)
"repossession of goods" , which is any activity carried out by a person on
behalf of a second person (not being his or her employer), being an activity
that involves finding goods held by a third person or requesting, demanding or
seizing such goods.
(2) For the purposes of this Part--
(a) if a commercial
agent activity is carried out by an employee of a person, the activity is
taken to have been carried out by the person, and
(b) if a corporation
carries out a commercial agent activity, each officer of the corporation is
taken to have carried out the commercial agent activity.
