Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Estate Agents Act 1980 - SECT 35

Registered office and address

35. Registered office and address



(1) Every licensed estate agent shall have a registered office within
Victoria, and every agent's representative shall have a registered address
within Victoria, to which all communications and notices may be addressed.

(2) Any change in the situation of a registered office or registered address
shall be promptly notified in writing to the Registrar by the agent or agent's
representative concerned, and the Registrar shall alter the register
accordingly.



(3) An estate agent shall within fourteen days of the establishment of a
branch office advise the Registrar in writing of the address of that branch
office.





(3A) Subject to subsection (3B), every licensed estate agent must have a
principal office in Victoria.



(3B) A licensed estate agent who is also licensed or otherwise authorised
under the laws of another State to carry on the business of an estate agent in
that State who operates an estate agency business in that State and the main
or only estate agency office of that business is located within that State may
have his or her principal office outside Victoria if it is within 48
kilometres of Victoria.

(4) Any change in the situation of the principal office or a branch office of
an estate agent shall be promptly notified in writing to the Registrar by the
estate agent concerned and the Registrar shall alter the register accordingly.



(5) For the purposes of this Act where a licensed estate agent carries on
business at only one place that place shall be recorded as his principal
office.

(6) Every estate agent shall, within seven days after he employs and within
seven days after ceasing to employ any agent's representative, in writing
notify the Registrar of such employment or cessation of employment and the
Registrar shall enter the fact in the register.

(7) Any agent or agent's representative who carries on business without
complying with the requirements of this section shall be guilty of an offence.