Auctioneers’ Licences (Amendment) Bill

This Act may be cited as the Auctioneers’ Licences (Amendment) Act 2000 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

The long title to the Auctioneers’ Licences Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by deleting the word “auctioneers,”.

Section 1 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “Auctioneers’ Licences” and substituting the words “Appraisers and House Agents”.

Sections 2 and 3 of the principal Act are repealed.

Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “Form B” and substituting the words “Form A”.

Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “Form C” and substituting the words “Form B”.

Section 10 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Exemption of officers of courts in levies not exceeding $10010. It shall not be necessary for any Sheriff, bailiff or other officer of a court of justice, acting under the authority of the court and appraising any goods or chattels, whatever may be the value, or selling any goods or chattels, whether under writ of seizure and sale, distress or other writ or order —

Sections 11 and 12 of the principal Act are repealed.

Section 13 of the principal Act is amended by deleting paragraphs (b) to (e) and substituting the following paragraphs:“(b)any advocate and solicitor who as such has in force a practising certificate to take out in addition thereto a licence as a house agent; or

Section 14 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “, or if an auctioneer has parted with any property entrusted to him for sale without obtaining payment for it and has failed to make good to his employer the value thereof or has otherwise misconducted himself as an auctioneer” in the 6th to 10th lines.

Section 15 of the principal Act is amended —

Section 18 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Power to make regulations

18. The Minister may make regulations necessary for or convenient to carrying out the provisions of this Act, including but not limited to the length of notice to be given and the manner of advertising sales on the instructions of mortgagees acting under powers of sale or of any person in a position of trust with respect to or liable to account for the proceeds of sale.”.

The Schedule to the principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule substituted therefor:“THE SCHEDULESection 5FORM AAPPRAISERS AND HOUSE AGENTS ACT (CHAPTER 16)APPRAISER’S LICENCESection 7FORM BAPPRAISERS AND HOUSE AGENTS ACT (CHAPTER 16)HOUSE AGENT’S LICENCE”.

Any person who, immediately before the commencement date of this Act, has in force a licence as an auctioneer under the principal Act shall be deemed to have in force a licence as an appraiser and as a house agent under the principal Act as amended by this Act until 31st December 2000, upon which date that licence shall be deemed to have expired.

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