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REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS AGENTS AMENDMENT BILL 2007

                   Western Australia


Real Estate and Business Agents Amendment
                 Bill 2007

                      CONTENTS


  1.   Short title                      2
  2.   Commencement                     2
  3.   The Act amended                  2
  4.   Section 4 amended                2
  5.   Section 145 amended              3




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                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY



  Real Estate and Business Agents Amendment
                   Bill 2007


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Real Estate and Business Agents Act 1978.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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     1.         Short title
                This is the Real Estate and Business Agents Amendment
                Act 2007.

     2.         Commencement
 5              This Act comes into operation as follows:
                 (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
                       receives the Royal Assent;
                 (b) the rest of the Act -- on a day fixed by proclamation.

     3.         The Act amended
10              The amendments in this Act are to the Real Estate and Business
                Agents Act 1978.

     4.         Section 4 amended
                Section 4(1) is amended in the definition of "business agent" by
                deleting the passage from and including "does not include" to
15              the end of the definition and inserting instead --
            "
                          does not include --
                          (a) a person whose business is to so act by
                               reason that --
20                               (i) the person is appointed by a court as a
                                       receiver or receiver and manager of
                                       the business of another; or
                                (ii) the person is an official receiver or
                                       trustee within the meaning of the
25                                     Bankruptcy Act 1966 of the
                                       Commonwealth or any Act in
                                       amendment or substitution of that
                                       Act;
                               or


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                     (b)     a person that is prescribed or that belongs to
                             a class of persons that is prescribed;
                                                                               ".

     5.   Section 145 amended
 5        Before section 145(2)(a) the following paragraph is inserted --
              "
                  (aa)     prescribe a person or class of persons for the
                           purposes of the definition of "business agent"
                           in section 4(1);
10                                                                             ".




 


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