An Act to provide for the qualifications and regulation of valuers; to repeal the Valuers Registration Act 1975; and for other purposes.
This Act is the Valuers Act 2003.
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation except as provided by subsection (2).
Schedule 1.6 and 1.15 commence on the commencement of Division 4 of Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002.
In this Act:
For corresponding laws see Gazette No 37 of 29.3.2005, p 944.
(a) the Commissioner for Fair Trading, Department of Finance and Services, or
(b) if there is no such position in the Department of Finance and Services—the Director General of that Department.
(a) land (including any estate or interest in land), or
(b) an exclusive right to the separate occupation of land or a building or part of a building (whether the right derives from the ownership of a share or interest in a body corporate or arising in some other way), or
(c) an access licence under the Water Management Act 2000, or
(d) any other property that is prescribed by the regulations as property for the purposes of this Act.
A person who carries out a valuation of property in the course of and incidentally to the performance of services as an architect, engineer, surveyor or quantity surveyor is not a valuer with respect to that valuation if any fee or reward paid or payable in respect of those services is wholly or principally attributable to the performance of services other than the carrying out of that valuation.
Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.
A natural person must not practise or advertise as a valuer unless he or she is a registered valuer.
A registered valuer must not practise as a valuer in contravention of any conditions to which the valuer’s registration is subject.
A natural person must not advertise…