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Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Interpretation and application

6: Persons may not carry out real estate agency work unless licensed or exempt

You could also call this:

"You must be licensed or exempt to do real estate work."

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You cannot do real estate agency work unless you are licensed or exempt. You must be licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 to do this work, and you must stay within what your licence allows. You can also be exempt from needing a licence under sections 7 to 9 or another law. You cannot tell people you are ready to do agency work if you are not licensed or exempt. It does not matter if you do agency work on its own or as part of another business. You still need to follow the rules about being licensed or exempt. If you want to know more about being exempt, you can look at sections 7 to 9.

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Part 1Interpretation and application

6Persons may not carry out real estate agency work unless licensed or exempt

  1. A person must not carry out any real estate agency work unless the person—

  2. is licensed under this Act and acts within the scope of that licence; or
    1. is exempt from the licensing requirement under any of sections 7 to 9 or under another enactment.

      1. No person may hold himself or herself out to the public as ready to carry out any agency work if that person is not licensed under this Act or exempt from the licensing requirement under any of sections 7 to 9 or under another enactment.

      2. For the purposes of this section, it is immaterial whether or not a person carries out any agency work as a business in its own right or as part of, or in connection with, any other business.

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