Section 139 — Residential Tenancies Act 1986: Regulations relating to accommodation brokers

139 Regulations relating to accommodation brokers The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes: (a) Providing for the registering, licensing, or approval of accommodation brokers, including the qualifications required of, and the conditions to be met by, persons intending to set up business as accommodation brokers, and for the disciplining of accommodation brokers who are so registered, licensed, or approved: (b) Requiring persons carrying on or intending to carry on business as accommodation brokers to provide bonds to secure the proper conduct of their businesses: (c) Conferring on the Tribunal jurisdiction in respect of all or any of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section: (d) Regulating the conduct of business by accommodation brokers, including advertising carried on in the course of, or in relation to, such business: (e) Conferring on the chief executive in respect of any disputes and proceedings arising under the regulations all or any of the powers conferred on the chief executive by section 124 of this Act in respect of proceedings under this Act: (f) Prescribing fees payable in respect of any matters under any regulations made under this section: (g) Prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance with any regulations made under this section, and the amounts of fines that may be imposed in respect of any such offences, which fines shall be an amount not exceeding $5,000, and, where the offence is a continuing one, a further amount not exceeding $500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence has continued. Section 139(e) was amended, as from 18 August 1992, by section 19 Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 79) by substituting the words “ chief executive ” for the words “ Director-General ” .