New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

FAIR TRADING REGULATION 2019 - REG 15

15 Provision consequent on enactment of Fair Trading Amendment (Commercial Agents) Act 2016 No 52--Act, Schedule 5, cl 1A(4)

(1) For the purposes of the Act, Schedule 5, clause 1A(4), on the commencement of the Fair Trading Amendment (Commercial Agents) Act 2016 , a person is taken to hold a commercial agent licence under the Act if--

(a) the person held, under the repealed Act, a master licence or an operator licence for debt collection, process serving or repossession of goods that was in force on 30 June 2022, and

(b) from 30 June 2022 the person has carried out one or more commercial agent activities, and

(c) for the purposes of carrying out a commercial agent activity, the person has engaged in conduct that would otherwise constitute an offence under the Act, section 60C.

(2) A licence held under subsection (1) is taken to expire on whichever date is the sooner of the following--

(a) the expiry of the period during which the licence granted under the repealed Act would, but for the repeal of that Act, have had effect,

(b) 30 June 2023.

(3) In this clause--

"repealed Act" means the Commercial Agents and Private Inquiry Agents Act 2004 .