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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Miscellaneous provisions - Register of licensed immigration advisers

77: Register of licensed immigration advisers

You could also call this:

“A list of approved immigration helpers and their information”

The Registrar must keep a list of all licensed immigration advisers. This list is called a register. The register helps you find out important information about immigration advisers. You can use it to find out how to contact a licensed immigration adviser. You can also check if someone is allowed to work as an immigration adviser and what kind of licence they have. The register will tell you if someone’s licence has been taken away or stopped for a while. It also shows if someone has been told they can’t have a licence.

The register is also useful for the Registrar and the Commerce Commission. They use it to make sure immigration advisers follow the rules. It helps them protect people who use immigration advisers. The Registrar also uses the register to do other jobs like checking on immigration advisers and doing paperwork.

The Registrar can keep the register in different ways. It might be on a computer, like on a website. Or the Registrar might keep it in another way that they think is good.

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Part 2 Miscellaneous provisions
Register of licensed immigration advisers

77Register of licensed immigration advisers

  1. The Registrar must keep and maintain a register of licensed immigration advisers.

  2. The purpose of the register is—

  3. to enable members of the public to know—
    1. how to contact a licensed immigration adviser; and
      1. whether or not a person is licensed as an immigration adviser under this Act and, if so, the type of licence the person holds; and
        1. whether or not a person's licence has been cancelled or suspended, or whether a person's application for a licence has been refused; and
        2. to facilitate the ability of the Registrar or the Commerce Commission to enforce the provisions of this Act or of any consumer protection legislation; and
          1. to facilitate the compliance, audit, and other supporting and administrative functions of the Registrar under this Act.

            1. The register may be kept—

            2. as an electronic register (for example, on the Authority's or the Department's website); or
              1. in any other manner that the Registrar thinks fit.