South Australian Consolidated Acts29—Procuring or referring conveyancing business
(1) A legal
practitioner or registered conveyancer must not pay or give a commission or
fee or other consideration to a person for referring business involving the
preparation of conveyancing instruments.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
(2) An agent, or a
person who stands in a prescribed relationship to an agent, must not demand or
receive from a legal practitioner or registered conveyancer a commission or
fee or other consideration for referring to the legal practitioner or
registered conveyancer business involving the preparation of conveyancing
instruments.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
(3) An agent, or a
person who stands in a prescribed relationship to an agent, must not procure
or attempt to procure the execution of a document requiring or authorising the
preparation of a conveyancing instrument by a particular person or person of a
particular description.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
(4) A clause included
in, or appended to, an offer or contract for the sale of land or a business
requiring or authorising the preparation of a conveyancing instrument by a
particular person or person of a particular description is void.