Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
139Regulations relating to accommodation brokers
The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
- providing for the registering, licensing, or approval of accommodation brokers, including the qualifications required of, and the conditions to be met by, persons intending to set up business as accommodation brokers, and for the disciplining of accommodation brokers who are so registered, licensed, or approved:
- requiring persons carrying on or intending to carry on business as accommodation brokers to provide bonds to secure the proper conduct of their businesses:
- conferring on the Tribunal jurisdiction in respect of all or any of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b):
- regulating the conduct of business by accommodation brokers, including advertising carried on in the course of, or in relation to, such business:
- conferring on the chief executive in respect of any disputes and proceedings arising under the regulations all or any of the powers conferred on the chief executive by section 124 in respect of proceedings under this Act:
- prescribing fees payable in respect of any matters under any regulations made under this section:
- prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance with any regulations made under this section, and the amounts of fines that may be imposed in respect of any such offences, which fines shall be an amount not exceeding $5,000, and, where the offence is a continuing one, a further amount not exceeding $500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence has continued.
Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).
Notes
- Section 139(1)(e): amended, on , by section 19 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 79).
- Section 139(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).