Procuring or referring conveyancing business
29 Procuring or referring conveyancing business
A legal practitioner or registered conveyancer must not pay or give a commission or fee or other consideration to a person for referring business involving the preparation of conveyancing instruments. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $20 000.
An agent, or a person who stands in a prescribed relationship to an agent, must not demand or receive from a legal practitioner or registered conveyancer a commission or fee or other consideration for referring to the legal practitioner or registered conveyancer business involving the preparation of conveyancing instruments. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $20 000.
An agent, or a person who stands in a prescribed relationship to an agent, must not procure or attempt to procure the execution of a document requiring or authorising the preparation of a conveyancing instrument by a particular person or person of a particular description. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $20 000.
A clause included in, or appended to, an offer or contract for the sale of land or a business requiring or authorising the preparation of a conveyancing instrument by a particular person or person of a particular description is void.
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