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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Preliminary provisions

5: Fundamental obligations of conveyancing practitioners

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"Conveyancers must be honest and fair when helping clients"

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You must follow some rules when you provide regulated services as a conveyancing practitioner. You have to be independent when providing these services to your clients. You also have to act in accordance with your duties to your clients. You have duties of care and fiduciary duties to your clients. You must act in a way that is fair and honest towards them. You have to protect your clients' interests, while also following the law. You need to remember these obligations when you are working with your clients. You have to be careful and make sure you are doing the right thing. You are responsible for following these rules and doing your job properly.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

5Fundamental obligations of conveyancing practitioners

  1. Every conveyancing practitioner who provides regulated services must, in the course of his or her practice, comply with the following fundamental obligations:

  2. the obligation to be independent in providing regulated services to his or her clients:
    1. the obligation to act in accordance with all fiduciary duties and duties of care owed by conveyancing practitioners to their clients:
      1. the obligation to protect, subject to his or her duties under any enactment, the interests of his or her clients.