Property Agents and Land Transactions Amendment Regulations 2008


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Property Agents and Land Transactions Amendment Regulations 2008

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Property Agents and Land Transactions Act 2005 .

11 August 2008

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

D. E. LLEWELLYN

Minister for Justice

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Property Agents and Land Transactions Amendment Regulations 2008 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Property Agents and Land Transactions Regulations 2006 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 42 amended (Qualifications)

Regulation 42 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulation (1) and substituting the following subregulation:
(1)  For the purposes of section 64(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed educational qualification is –
(a) a Diploma of Property (Real Estate) awarded by a registered training organisation within the meaning of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1994 ; or
(b) a qualification that the Board is satisfied is substantially equivalent to the qualification prescribed in paragraph (a) .

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 20 August 2008

These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Property Agents and Land Transactions Regulations 2006 by revising the qualification requirements for persons to be registered as real estate agents under the Property Agents and Land Transactions Act 2005 .