Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Introduction Agents Act 1997 - SECT 14

Certain people are not to be introduction agents

14. Certain people are not to be introduction agents



(1) A natural person must not act as an introduction agent if she or he-

   (a)  is under 18 years of age; or

   (b)  is an insolvent under administration; or

   (c)  has been convicted of a serious offence within the last 5 years; or

   (d)  is a represented person within the meaning of the Guardianship and
        Administration Board Act 1986; or

   (e)  is a licensee or an approved manager under the
        Prostitution Control Act 1994; or

   (f)  is the subject of a current order under section 64 stopping her or him
        from acting as an introduction agent; or

   (g)  is the subject of a current order under section 65 disqualifying her
        or him from acting as an introduction agent.

Penalty: 500 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

(2) A corporation must not act as an introduction agent if-

   (a)  one or more of its directors is disqualified from acting as an
        introduction agent by subsection (1); or

   (b)  it has been convicted of a serious offence within the last 5 years; or

   (c)  it is an externally-administered body corporate; or



   (d)  it is the subject of a current order under section 64 stopping it from
        acting as an introduction agent; or

   (e)  it is the subject of a current order under section 65 disqualifying it
        from acting as an introduction agent.

Penalty: 500 penalty units.

(3) In this section-

externally-administered body corporate has the same meaning as in the
Corporations Act;









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serious offence means an offence involving fraud, dishonesty, drug trafficking
or violence punishable by imprisonment for 3 months or more, regardless of
whether the offence occurred in Australia or elsewhere.

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