Settlement Agents Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2008 (WA)

23 December 2008 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5469

CE303*

Settlement Agents Act 1981

Settlement Agents Amendment Regulations

(No. 2) 2008

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Settlement Agents Amendment
Regulations (No. 2) 2008.

2.            Commencement

Act specified in Schedule 5 Part 1 is an offence for

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Settlement Agents
Regulations 1982.

4.            Regulation 15 amended

Delete regulation 15(1) and (2) and insert:

(1) An offence under section 65(1) in respect of a
contravention or failure to observe a provision of the

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which an infringement notice may be issued under

Part 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2004.

(2A) An offence under section 120(1) in respect of a

contravention or failure to comply with a provision of
the Act specified in Schedule 5 Part 2 is an offence for
which an infringement notice may be issued under
Part 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2004.

(2) The modified penalty specified opposite a provision in Schedule 5 is the modified penalty for a contravention or failure to observe, or comply with, that provision for the purposes of section 5(3) of the Criminal Procedure Act 2004.

5. Schedule 5 replaced
Delete Schedule 5 and insert:

Schedule 5 — Prescribed offences and modified penalties

[r. 15]

Part 1 — Offences under section 65

Provision of the Settlement Agents Act 1981	Modified Penalty
s. 51(1)	$600
s. 51(3)(a)	$600

Part 2 — Offences under section 120

Provision of the Settlement Agents	Modified Penalty
Act 1981
s. 36(1)	$400
s. 37(1)	$200

s. 38(1)	$200
s. 38(2)	$200
s. 38(3)	$400
s. 41(1)(a)	$200
s. 41(1)(b)	$200
s.41(2)	$200
s. 42(1)(a)	$400
s. 42(1)(b)	$400
s. 42(2)(a)	$400
s. 42(2)(b)	$400

By Command of the Governor,

G. M. PIKE, Clerk of the Executive Council.