Fair Trading Act 1987

In this Part, commercial agent activity means any of the following activities—

debt collection, which is—

any activity carried out by a person on behalf of a second person (not being his or her employer) in the exercise of the second person’s rights under a debt owed by a third person, or

any activity carried out by a person on his or her own behalf in the exercise of rights acquired from a second person (otherwise than in the course of an acquisition or merger of business interests) under a debt owed by a third person,

process serving, which is any activity carried out by a person on behalf of a second person (not being his or her employer), being an activity that involves serving legal process on a third person in relation to legal proceedings to which the second and third persons are, or are intended to be, parties, regardless of which jurisdiction the legal proceedings are, or are intended to be, held in,

repossession of goods, which is any activity carried out by a person on behalf of a second person (not being his or her employer), being an activity that involves finding goods held by a third person or requesting, demanding or seizing such goods.

For the purposes of this Part—

if a commercial agent activity is carried out by an employee of a person, the activity is taken to have been carried out by the person, and

if a corporation carries out a commercial agent activity, each officer of the corporation is taken to have carried out the commercial agent activity.