Victorian Consolidated Legislation

PRIVATE AGENTS ACT 1966

No. 7494 of 1966
Version incorporating amendments as at 27 July 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page
   1.      Short title and commencement

   PART I-PRELIMINARY

   2.      Repeal and saving
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Act not applicable to certain persons

   PART II-COMMERCIAL LICENCES

   5.      Categories of private agents
   6.      Private agents to be licensed
   7.      Chief Commissioner to keep register
   8.      Application for licence
   9.      Corporations and firms
   10.     Requirements in respect of application
   10A.    Provisional licences
   11.     Procedure on receipt of application
   12.     Objections
   13.     Court may issue or refuse licence
   14.     Adjournment
   15.     Application for the renewal of licence
   16.     Applicant entitled to renewal without appearance where no objection is lodged
   17.     Duplicate licence
   18.     Cancellation of licence on information
   19.     Fees

   PART IIA-Repealed

           19A-19L Repealed

   PART III-GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PRIVATE AGENTS

   20.     Private agent not entitled to fees etc. unless licensed
   21.     Licence not to confer additional powers
   22.     Licence to be produced on demand
   23.     Registered address
   24.     Advertisements to contain name and address
   25.     Repealed
   26.     Private agent not to sell or dispose of his licence
   27.     Unlawful entry
   28.     Misrepresentations
   29.     Delegation of functions to unlicensed person an offence
   30.     Private agent not to employ persons in respect of whom a
           licence is refused suspended or cancelled

   PART IV-SPECIAL PROVISIONS

           Division 1-Repealed

   31.     Surety
   31A.    Value of trustee securities
   31B.    Where value of trustee securities is reduced additional
           securities to be lodged
   32.     Termination of fidelity bond
   33.     Inspection of surety
   33A.    Trustee securities to remain lodged for at least two years after licence ceases
   34.     Payment into trust account
   34A.    Distribution of trust moneys in the event of default by the commercial agent
   35.     Inspection of records
   36.     Relief to financial institutions
   37.     Repossession of motor vehicles to be reported
   38.     Commercial agents not to charge debtors for expenses of
           debt collecting etc.
   39.     Sub-agents not to be employed unless licensed
   40.     Commercial sub-agents

           Division 2-Repealed

   PART IVA-Repealed

           41-41C. Repealed

   PART V-GENERAL

   42.     Court may defer operation of order pending appeal
   42A.    Repealed
   43.     Returns by clerk of the Magistrates' Court
   44.     Furnishing incorrect particulars
   44A.    Permanent records to be kept by commercial agents
   45.     Repealed
   46.     Offences
   47.     Further penalty
   48.     Liability of corporations
   49.     Joint offenders
   50.     Judicial notice of certificates of the Chief Commissioner
   51.     Regulations
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details