Section 30 — VALUERS, APPRAISERS AND ESTATE AGENTS ACT 1981

(a)

procures or attempts to procure registration or an authority to practice under this Act by knowingly making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent declaration, certificate, application or representation whether in writing or otherwise;

(b)

wilfully makes or causes to be made any falsification in the

Register or Register of Probationers or Register of Firms;

(c)

forges, alters or counterfeits any certificate, testimonial, order or authority to practice under this Act;

(d)

utters or uses any forged, altered or counterfeit authority to practice under this Act knowing the same to be forged, altered or counterfeited;

(e)

impersonates a registered valuer, registered appraiser, registered estate agent or registered property manager;

(f)

buys or fraudulently obtains an authority to practice under this

Act issued to another person;

(g)

(Deleted by Act A1550).

(h)

not being a person acting under the immediate personal direction and supervision of a registered valuer, registered appraiser, registered estate agent or registered property manager carries out or undertakes to carry out any work provided under section 19, 22B or 22I;

(i)

acts in contravention of section 21, 22C or 22J; or

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(j)

aids and abets in the commission of an offence under this Act, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both and he shall be liable to a further penalty of one thousand ringgit for each day during the continuance of such offence.

(2)

Any person who, without any lawful authority—

(a)

acts as a valuer, appraiser, estate agent or property manager for any party or acts in any capacity as a valuer, appraiser, estate agent or property manager whether the primary or principal object of his business is valuation, appraisal, estate agency or property management or whether any incidental part of his business is valuation, appraisal, estate agency or property management; or

(b)

wilfully or falsely pretends to be, or takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is duly qualified or authorized to act as, a valuer, appraiser, estate agent or property manager, or that he is by law so qualified or authorized, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

(3)

No costs, commission, fee, reward or any other consideration in respect of anything done by an unauthorized person in respect of any act which is an offence under subsections (1) or (2) shall be recoverable in any court.

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