Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE AGENTS LICENSING ACT - SECT 4

(1) This Act shall not apply to -

(a) a member of the Northern Territory or Commonwealth Police Force acting in accordance with his duties;

(b) a Chief Executive Officer or employee, as defined in the Public Sector Employment and Management Act while acting in the performance of his functions under that Act;

(c) an employee of the Crown or any instrumentality of the Crown while acting in the performance of his functions as such an employee;

(d) a legal practitioner acting in the ordinary course of his profession;

(e) a clerk of a legal practitioner while acting in the ordinary course of his employment as a clerk of the legal practitioner;

(f) an accountant while acting in the ordinary course of his profession;

(g) an officer of any Court while acting in the performance of his functions as an officer of that Court;

(h) a trustee company, an ADI, the Territory Insurance Office or a person carrying on the business of insurance, insurance broking, insurance adjustment or deposit-taking, while acting in the ordinary course of business as such or an employee of any such body or person while acting in the ordinary course of his or her employment;

(i) a person employed under a contract of service by a person who is not an agent while acting in the ordinary course of that employment; or

(j) a person authorised by the Power and Water Corporation, established by the Power and Water Corporation Act , to request and receive payment of money due and owing to it by members of an Aboriginal community or group while acting in the ordinary course of requesting and receiving those payments.

(2) The Regulations under this Act may exempt to the extent prescribed any class of persons from the operation of this Act.