Property Agents and Land Transactions Act 2016

A complainant may give written notice to the executive officer of the Board withdrawing the conduct complaint.

The executive officer is to bring the notice to the attention of the Board at the first practicable opportunity.

Despite receipt of the notice, the Board may continue investigating the complaint if it is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.

A conduct complaint cannot be withdrawn if at the time of the notice of withdrawal the Board has referred the conduct complaint to the Tribunal.

If a conduct complaint is withdrawn, the Board is to notify the property agent who is the subject of the conduct complaint of the withdrawal.

A withdrawal of a conduct complaint does not prevent a conduct complaint being made by any other person in respect of the same conduct by the property agent.

If a conduct complaint in respect of a property agent has been withdrawn, the person who made the complaint has no right to make a further conduct complaint about the same conduct without the approval of the Board, and the Board is not to give such approval unless it is satisfied that there is sufficient justification for accepting the conduct complaint again.