Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Estate Agents Act 1980 - SECT 45

Continuing professional development

45. Continuing professional development



(1) The Director may require estate agents or agent's representatives to
undertake specified training or professional development activities.

(2) The Director must publish notice of the making of a requirement in the
Government Gazette.

(3) A requirement takes effect on the date the notice is published, or on any
later date specified in the notice.

(4) A requirement-

   (a)  may specify that it applies generally to all agents or agent's
        representatives, or only to specified classes or sub-classes of agents
        or agent's representatives;

   (b)  may specify that every person to whom it applies must undertake a
        specified activity by a specified time;

   (c)  may assign point (or other) values to specified activities and require
        that a person undertake within a specified time activities that have a
        specified total point (or other) value;

   (d)  must identify the providers of any required activity;

   (e)  may provide for the Director-

   (i)  to extend a time limit that applies to a person with respect to the
        requirement;

   (ii) to exempt, or partially exempt, a class of person from having to
        comply with the requirement on specified grounds.



(5) If the Director makes a requirement under this section, an agent or
agent's representative to whom the requirement applies must not knowingly fail
to comply with the requirement.

Penalty: 25 penalty units.