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Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Miscellaneous provisions - Offences and penalties - Offences relating to requirement to be licensed

143: Offence of employing or contracting unlicensed or non-exempt person as agent, branch manager, or salesperson

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"It's an offence to hire an unlicensed person as a real estate agent or manager."

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You commit an offence if you employ or contract someone as an agent, branch manager, or salesperson who is not licensed or exempt under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008. This includes people whose licence has been suspended or cancelled. You also commit an offence if you employ someone who is prohibited from working for an agent in a real estate business under an order made under section 110.

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Part 6Miscellaneous provisions
Offences and penalties: Offences relating to requirement to be licensed

143Offence of employing or contracting unlicensed or non-exempt person as agent, branch manager, or salesperson

  1. A person commits an offence who employs or contracts, or continues to employ or contract, as an agent, branch manager, or salesperson a person—

  2. who is not licensed or exempt from the requirement to be licensed under this Act; or
    1. whose licence has been suspended under this Act; or
      1. whose licence has been cancelled under this Act; or
        1. who is prohibited from working for an agent in a real estate business in accordance with an order made under section 110.