South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (REAL ESTATE REFORM REVIEW AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2013 (NO 17 OF 2013) - SECT 6

6—Amendment of section 47—Disciplinary action

        (1)         Section 47(1)—delete "On the hearing" and substitute:

Subject to subsection (1a), on the hearing

        (2)         Section 47—after subsection (1) insert:

        (1a)         If the person to whom the complaint relates has been found guilty of a prescribed offence and the circumstances of the offence form, in whole or in part, the subject matter of the complaint, the Court must, by order, cancel any registration of the person and disqualify the person from being so registered unless the Court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities, by evidence given by the person on oath, that the offence was trifling or committed in exceptional circumstances.

        (1b)         Nothing in subsection (1a) prevents the Court from exercising such other powers under this section as the Court considers appropriate in the circumstances.

        (3)         Section 47—after subsection (4) insert:

        (5)         In this section—

"prescribed offence" means an offence against section 24A(2), section 24G(1), (2) or (3) or section 36 of the Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 .

Part 4—Amendment of "" Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994"