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Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Real Estate Agents Authority - Practice rules

18: Power of Minister to amend practice rules

You could also call this:

"The Minister can change real estate practice rules if they are not good enough."

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The Minister can change practice rules if they think they are not good enough. The Minister can only make changes to things that practice rules are allowed to cover. The Minister must talk to the Authority before making any changes. The Minister can also talk to real estate agents, branch managers, and salespersons about the changes. They can talk to other people or groups if they think it is a good idea. If the Minister makes changes to the rules, they must follow the rules for publishing secondary legislation, which you can find in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. You can think of secondary legislation like a set of rules that help explain how a law works. The Minister's changes to the practice rules are a type of secondary legislation. This means they have to be published in a certain way, so everyone knows about them.

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Part 2Real Estate Agents Authority
Practice rules

18Power of Minister to amend practice rules

  1. If the Minister considers any practice rules to be deficient in any respect, the Minister may, by notice and subject to subsections (2) and (3), make any amendments to those rules that are necessary to remedy the deficiency.

  2. Amendments made under subsection (1) to practice rules may relate only to matters in respect of which practice rules may be made.

  3. The Minister, in deciding whether to make amendments under subsection (1) to any practice rules,—

  4. must consult the Authority; and
    1. may consult with agents, branch managers, and salespersons that the Minister considers to be representative of the real estate industry; and
      1. may consult with any other persons or groups that the Minister thinks fit.

        1. A notice that amends rules under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

        Notes
        • Section 18(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
        • Section 18(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).