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ESTATE AGENTS (GENERAL, ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT) REGULATIONS 2008 (SR NO 39 OF 2008) - REG 29

Requirements regarding computerised accounting system controls

r. 29

    (1)     An estate agent must ensure that the computerised account system for the estate agency business is not capable of accepting the entry of a transaction that results in a debit balance in a trust account, unless a contemporaneous record of the transaction is made in a manner that enables the production, in a permanent form, on demand, of a separate chronological report of all such occurrences.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (2)     An estate agent must ensure that the system is not capable of deleting a trust ledger account unless—

        (a)     the balance of the account is zero and all outstanding cheques have been presented; and

        (b)     where the account is deleted, a copy of the account is retained in a permanent form.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (3)     The estate agent must ensure that any entry in the record required under subregulation (1) appears in chronological sequence.

Penalty:     5 penalty units.

    (4)     An estate agent must ensure each page of each record required under subregulation (1) is numbered sequentially under program control in a manner that enables the completeness of the records required to be conveniently verified.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (5)     An estate agent must ensure that the system is not capable of amending the particulars of a transaction already recorded otherwise than by a transaction separately recorded that makes the amendment.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (6)     The estate agent must ensure that the system requires input in every field of a data entry screen intended to receive information by this Part to be included in trust records.

Penalty:     5 penalty units.



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