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REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS AGENTS ACT 1978 - SECT 55

55 .         Sales representative to be in service of one person

        (1)         A registered sales representative shall not accept or undertake employment, or be or remain in the service of, or by any means hold himself out as being in the service of, or act as sales representative for or on behalf of, any person who is an agent or a developer at any time when he is employed by, or in the service of, any other person who is an agent or a developer.

        Penalty: $3 000.

        (2)         A person who is an agent or a developer shall not employ, or have in his service as a sales representative, any person who is, to the knowledge of that person who is an agent or a developer, at that time employed by, or in the service of, any other person who is an agent or a developer.

        Penalty: $3 000.

        (3)         An agent or a developer shall not whether directly or indirectly give any commission, reward or other valuable consideration to any other person, not being a licensee who holds a current triennial certificate, for acting as, or performing any of the functions of, a sales representative unless the other person is a registered sales representative in the service of the agent or developer, as the case may be, as a sales representative.

        Penalty: $3 000.

        (4)         Nothing contained elsewhere in this section applies to or in relation to a director of a body corporate that is a developer when acting as, or carrying out the functions of, a real estate sales representative for the body corporate in its business as a developer.

        [Section 55 amended by No. 43 of 1994 s. 11.]



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