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Real Estate Agents Act 2008

Miscellaneous provisions - Offences and penalties - Offences relating to application for licence

144: Offence to provide false or misleading information

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"It's an offence to give false information when applying for a real estate licence."

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You commit an offence if you give the Registrar false or misleading information when applying for a licence or renewing a licence under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008. If you are charged with this offence, you can defend yourself by showing you did not know the information was false and you took all reasonable care to ensure it was correct. You must have done everything you could to make sure the information was not false or misleading.

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Part 6Miscellaneous provisions
Offences and penalties: Offences relating to application for licence

144Offence to provide false or misleading information

  1. A person commits an offence who, for the purposes of any application for a licence or for renewal of a licence under this Act, supplies to the Registrar any false or misleading information.

  2. It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) that the person to whom the charge relates did not know that he or she was providing false or misleading information and had exercised all reasonable care and due diligence to ensure that the information provided was not false or misleading.