Estate Agents Act 2010 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Licensing of Estate Agents and Registration of Salespersons
36. Register and search of register
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The Council must establish and maintain a register for the purposes of this Act in such form as the Council may decide.
Council
“Council” means the Council for Estate Agencies established under section 6;
The register must contain —
register
“register” means the register established and maintained by the Council under section 36;
the following particulars as regards every licence granted under this Act:
the name of the person to whom the licence was granted;
the period or periods for which the licence was granted, including the period or periods (if any) for which the licence was renewed;
if the licence is suspended, the period during which it is suspended; and
if the licence is revoked, the date of revocation;
the following particulars as regards every salesperson registered under this Act:
the name of the salesperson;
the name of the estate agent that the salesperson acts for and is registered through;
the period or periods of registration;
if the registration is suspended, the period during which it is suspended; and
if the registration is revoked, the date of revocation; and
such other particulars as may be prescribed.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Council may, in such form or manner and for such time as it considers appropriate, include in the register information relating to all or any of the following:
the estate agents that a salesperson had acted for in the past;
the prescribed particulars of any property transaction completed by any client of any licensed estate agent, within the meaning of section 43A(5);
the lapsing, revocation or suspension of any licence or registration under this Act;
the censure of any person under section 49(6)(a)(iv) or (b)(ii) or 66(3)(b);
the reprimand of any person under this Act;
the conviction of any person for any offence under this Act;
any action as may have been taken by the Council or a Disciplinary Committee against any person under this Act;
any other information in respect of estate agents and salespersons as the Council may consider necessary or expedient to publish in the public interest.
The Council may at any time publish such information from the register maintained under subsection (1) as it considers appropriate.
The Council must make the register available for public search or inspection, in such manner and at such reasonable time as the Council may determine, on payment of the prescribed fee, if any.
prescribed
“prescribed” means prescribed by the Council by regulations made under this Act;
A document signed by the Executive Director and certified by him or her as being a true copy of or an extract from any part of the register is, until the contrary is proved, evidence of the particulars entered in the part of the register to which the document so signed and certified relates.
document
“document” includes, in addition to a document in writing —(a)any map, plan, graph or drawing;(b)any photograph;(c)any label, marking or other writing which identifies or describes anything of which it forms a part, or to which it is attached by any means;(d)any disc, tape, soundtrack or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it;(e)any film (including microfilm), negative, tape, disc or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it; and(f)any paper or other material on which there are marks, impressions, figures, letters, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them;
It is not necessary in legal proceedings either to prove a signature on a document mentioned in subsection (6) or to prove that such a signature is that of the person holding the office of Executive Director on the date of the document.
Executive Director
“Executive Director” means the chief executive of the Council called the Executive Director, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;
Where a person applies to the Council for a copy of or an extract from any part of the register to be signed and certified as described in subsection (6), the Council must provide the person with the copy or extract applied for on payment of the prescribed fee, if any.