Agents Amendment Act 2001 (ACT)

Agents Amendment Act 2001

No 67 of 2001

Contents

Page

1. Name of Act  2

2. Commencement  2

3. Act amended  2

4. Applications for licences by individuals
   Section 48  2

5. Section 48 (1) (a)  2

6. Section 48 (1) (b) to (d)  2

7. Section 48 (1) (e)  2

8. Section 48 (1)  2

9. Applications for licences by companies
   Section 49 (1) (a) to (ga)  3

10. Section 49 (1) (h)  3

11. Section 49 (1) (j)  3

12. Section 49 (1)  3

13. Section 71ZA  3

14. Divisions—renumbering  4

Agents Amendment Act 2001

No 67 of 2001

An Act to amend the Agents Act 1968

[Notified in ACT Gazette No. S66: 10 September 2001]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Agents Amendment Act 2001.

2. Commencement

   This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.

3. Act amended

   This Act amends the Agents Act 1968.

4. Applications for licences by individuals
   Section 48

   omit everything before subsection (1) (a), substitute

5. Applications for licences by individuals

6. An application by an individual for the grant of a licence to carry on business as an agent—

7. Section 48 (1) (a)

   at the end insert

   ; and

8. Section 48 (1) (b) to (d)

   at the end insert

   and

9. Section 48 (1) (e)

   omit

10. Section 48 (1)

    renumber paragraphs when Act next republished under the Legislation Act 2001

11. Applications for licences by companies
    Section 49 (1) (a) to (ga)

    at the end insert

    and

12. Section 49 (1) (h)

    omit

    ; and

13. Section 49 (1) (j)

    omit

14. Section 49 (1)

    renumber paragraphs when Act next republished under the Legislation Act 2001

15. Section 71ZA

    substitute

71ZAClaims

1. A claim for compensation must—

   (a)be in writing; and

   (b)be given to the board within the appropriate period; and

   (c)state the full name and home address of the claimant; and

   (d)contain full particulars of the claim; and

   (e)be accompanied by a statutory declaration to the effect that the particulars contained in the claim are true.

2. The board must reject a claim that does not, at the time it is given, comply with subsection (1).

3. The appropriate period is the earlier of—

   (a)1 year after the day the claimant becomes aware of the failure to account to which the claim relates; or

   (b)2 years after the day the failure to account happens.

4. However, if before the end of the period within which a claim for compensation would, apart from this subsection, be required to be given, a notice about the making of the claim is published under section 71Z, the appropriate period is the period mentioned in the notice.

5. Divisions—renumbering

   renumber divisions when Act next republished under Legislation Act 2001

Endnotes

Act amended

1. Republished as in force on 1 March 1999.  See also Acts 1999 Nos 33 and 66; 2000 No 9; 2001 Nos 17 and 44.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 9 August 2001]

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