LAND AGENTS' BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 2

LAND AGENTS' BILL.

MEETING OF AUCKLAND AGENTS.

An adjourned meeting of land agents was held to-day at the Chamber of Commerce to further discuss the Land Agents Bill now before the House of Representatives. At last week's meeting Messrs Ewington, Frater, S. Yaile, J. Thornes. and Ward Baker were appointed a committee to draft amendments. Mr Ewington was voted to the chair, and the committee submitted their amendments, which were carried unanimously, and it was resolved to send them on to the Mon. Colonel Pitt, who is in charge of the bill. Following are the amendments proposed:— Section -1. "Land agent' , means a person who sells or attempts to sell, or offers for sale land, or in any way deals with land, on commission, otherwise than by auction, by himself, his partner, or partners, or by any bona fide employee. "Land" shall extend to and include messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of any tenure. Section 5. (1) If the application i* granted the clerk of the local authority shall on payment of the fee of twenty pounds issue to the applicant a license in the form numbered (2) in the first schedule hereto, signed by the chairman or any two members of the local authority, and countersigned by the clerk. (2 J Such license shall take effect as from the first day of January in each year, and shall expire on the 31st day of December in each year, and shall authorise the licensee to act as a land agent in any part of New Zealand during the currency of the license, unless the same is cancelled as hereinafter provided. Section 0. That this section be deleted. Section 9. (1) Within seven days after any sale of land according to the agreement regulating such sale the land agent shall render to the person on whose behalf the sale was made an account in writing of all moneys received by him in respect of such sale, and of the application thereof, and shall within such period of seven days pay to such person the balance (if any) of such moneys, as provided in the last preceding section.

Section 11. If any land agent is convicted of a breach of section S hereof, or of the last preceding section, his license shall be cancelled if the Court may think fit; and if any land agent who has been convicted of any other offence against this Act is within twelve months thereafter convicted of a second or any subsequent offence of any kind against this Act the Court may "if it thinks fit, in addition to any other penalty, cancel his license. Section 13. Every person not being the holder of a license who carries on business or in any way acts as a land agent. or who has any words printed or written, etc., etc. Section IC. That this section be deleted. Second Schedule. That this be deleted.