Western Australian Consolidated Acts

REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS AGENTS ACT 1978 - SECT 66

66 .         Keys to houses etc. and information about tenancies, payment for illegal

        (1)         Any person who pays, gives, or receives, or offers, promises, or agrees to pay, give, or receive, a sum of money or other consideration — 

            (a)         for obtaining or making available a key of a house or other building or part of a house or other building; or

            (b)         for information relating — 

                  (i)         to tenancy, occupation, or use, however described; or

                  (ii)         to the possibility or likelihood of tenancy, occupation, or use, however described,

                of the whole or part of a house or other building,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to — 

            (a)         a person, other than a licensee or a sales representative, whose business is or includes the selling or cutting of keys at a reasonable charge; or

            (b)         any commission, reward, or remuneration to which a licensee is entitled for effecting or arranging a real estate transaction of leasing or letting, or acquiring under lease or letting, tenancy, occupation, or use of the whole or part of a house or other building.

        [Section 66 amended by No. 74 of 1980 s. 6; No. 43 of 1994 s. 11.]