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Auctioneers Act 2013

Record-keeping obligations

18: Storage and inspection of auctioneer record

You could also call this:

“Keeping and sharing your auction record”

If you are a registered auctioneer, you need to keep a record of your auctions. This record must be kept at your main business address. You have to let certain people look at this record if they ask to see it at a reasonable time.

The people who can ask to see your auction record are:

  • Police officers
  • Someone from the Commerce Commission who has been given written permission to check auction records
  • A person who has sold something through you (but they can only see the parts of the record about their own sale)
  • The Registrar

If any of these people ask to see your auction record, you must show it to them. If they want a copy of the parts they’re allowed to see, you need to give them a copy.

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18Storage and inspection of auctioneer record

  1. Every auctioneer record must be kept available for inspection at the address of the principal place at which the registered auctioneer carries on business as an auctioneer.

  2. The registered auctioneer must make the auctioneer record available for inspection, on request at any reasonable time, by any of the following:

  3. a constable:
    1. an employee of the Commerce Commission authorised, in writing, to inspect auctioneer records:
      1. a vendor who has sold property through the auctioneer, but only in respect of the parts of the record that relate to the vendor and that property:
        1. the Registrar.

          1. A registered auctioneer must, on request, give any person who has a right to inspect an auctioneer record a copy of any part of the record that he or she is entitled to inspect.

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          Notes
          • Section 18(2)(d): inserted, on , by section 6 of the Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 11).