Valuers Registration Act 1975 (NSW)

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An Act to provide for the registration of real estate valuers; to regulate the qualifications for and the effect of such registration; to confer and impose functions on the Director-General of the Department of Fair Trading; and to amend the Local Government Act 1919 in relation to valuations made for the purposes of that Act.

Part 1Preliminary1Name of Act

This Act may be cited as the Valuers Registration Act 1975.

2Commencement(1)

This section and section 1 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.

(2)

Sections 5 (4) and 24 shall commence on such day (being a day that is at least six months after the day appointed under subsection (3)) as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

(3)

Except as provided in subsections (1) and (2), this Act shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

3

(Repealed)

4Definitions(1)

In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:

Director-General means the Director-General of the Department of Fair Trading.

licensed premises has the same meaning as in the Liquor Act 1982.

real estate valuer means a person who values land for a fee or reward which is paid or payable either to him or her or to a person (including the Crown or an instrumentality or agency of the Crown) who employs him or her, whether in the capacity of employee or agent or in any other capacity.

register means the Register of Real Estate Valuers kept by the Director-General under section 12.

registered real estate valuer means a person registered under Part 3.

regulations means regulations made under this Act.

(2)

A reference in this Act (section 12 excepted) to the name of a person in the register includes a reference to the other particulars in the register that relate to that person.

(3)

A person who carries out a valuation of land in the course of, and incidentally to, the performing of services as an architect, an engineer, a surveyor or a quantity surveyor is not a real estate 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 performing of services other than the carrying out of that valuation.

Part 25–11

(Repealed)

Part 3Registration of real estate valuers12Register(1)

The Director-General shall keep a register, to be called the “Register of Real Estate Valuers”.

(2)

The register shall be divided as follows:

  • (a)

    associate real estate valuers,

  • (b)

    practising real estate valuers,

  • (c)

    non-practising real estate valuers,

  • (d)

    associate valuers of licensed premises,

  • (e)

    valuers of licensed premises.

(3)

A person shall be registered by the entry in the appropriate division of the register of:

  • (a)

    the…

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