Reference no: EM133187178
Employer and employee responsibilities
1. Visit the WA Fair Work website
2. Under 'Awards and Agreements' you will find the Real Estate Industry Award 2010. You may download and save this or review online.
3. View the video on Australia's National Employment Law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn6E_DXr8dM
4. Explain some of the fundamental potential differences for employment under state or federal legislation.
Activity
The CPD Programme
1. Visit the website page you have bookmarked for the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety and locate the link: Compulsory Professional Development (CPD) - Real Estate
2. Review the CPD Program information and thoroughly explore the requirements for 'mandatory' activities and 'elective' activities.
3. As a registered sales representative, which mandatory session are you authorised to attend? Click or tap here to enter text.
4. As a registered sales representative restricted to property management, which mandatory session must you attend?
Activity Certificates of registration
1. Visit the website page you have bookmarked for the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety and locate the link: Licensing and registration - real estate
2. Locate the link to 'sales representatives' and thoroughly review the conditions for application and requirements for:
- Registration requirements
- Character and Repute
- Qualification Requirements
3. How many units of competence are required to achieve the qualification requirement to apply for an unrestricted registration?
4. How many units of competence are required to achieve the qualification requirement to apply for registration restricted to sales transactions?
5. How many units of competence are required to achieve the qualification requirement to apply for registration restricted to property management transactions?
Activity The real estate agent licence
1. Visit the website page you have bookmarked for the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety and locate the links for:
- individual agent or business agent licence - real estate
- partnership agent or business agent licence - real estate
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- body corporate agent or business agent licence - real estate
2. Visit each of these webpages and thoroughly review the conditions for application.
3. What experience is required by an applicant for an individual real estate and business agent licence?
4. What is the requirement for Australian police checks when applying for a partnership or firm licence?
Activity Breaches of legislation
1. Visit the Regulator's website and locate the publications relating to real estate. www.commerce.wa.gov.au/publications/real-estate-bulletin
2. Read real estate bulletin 69 and answer the following questions:
a. Which Act, Regulation or Code was breached in this case?
b. What fines and costs were imposed on the sales representative?
c. How must agents and their representatives always act, according to Ms Driscoll, the Commissioner for Consumer Protection, at the time of publication of the bulletin?