Disqualified persons
5 Disqualified persons
In this Act, a person is a disqualified person if the person is any of the following—
S. 5(a) amended by Nos 12/2007 s. 80, 17/2014 s. 160(Sch. 2 item 18.2).
a disqualified person within the meaning of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria);
the subject of an order by a body within or outside of Victoria that disqualifies the person from carrying on a conveyancing business;
a director of a company that is a disqualified person;
an insolvent under administration;
S. 5(e) amended by No. 46/2025 s. 34(2).
an externally administered body corporate;
subject to Division 7 of Part 2, a person in relation to whom a claim against the Fund has been allowed;
subject to Division 7 of Part 2, if a claim against the Fund has been allowed in relation to a company, a person who was a director of, or otherwise concerned in the management of, the company at the time of the incident that gave rise to the claim;
S. 5(h) amended by No. 13/2019 s. 221(Sch. 1 item 8).
a person who is a represented person within the meaning of the Guardianship and Administration Act 2019;
subject to Division 7 of Part 2, a person who has, within the last 10 years in Australia or elsewhere, been convicted or found guilty of any offence involving fraud, dishonesty, drug trafficking or violence which was punishable by imprisonment for 3 months or more (whether or not a sentence of imprisonment was imposed).
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