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REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 240F

240F—Legal practitioner and registered conveyancer must obtain authorisation

        (1)         If a legal practitioner or registered conveyancer executes an instrument for the purposes of this Act or the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (South Australia) on behalf of a party to the instrument

            (a)         other than in accordance with a properly completed client authorisation; or

            (b)         in accordance with a properly completed client authorisation but without first—

                  (i)         verifying the identity of the party in accordance with the verification of identity requirements; and

                  (ii)         verifying the authority of the party, in accordance with the verification of authority guidelines, to be a party to the instruments authorised by or under the client authorisation,

the practitioner or conveyancer is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to a legal practitioner or registered conveyancer

            (a)         who executes a caveat as agent of a caveator otherwise than under a client authorisation; or

            (b)         who executes a priority notice on behalf of a person otherwise than under a client authorisation; or

            (c)         in other prescribed circumstances.

        (3)         In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1)(a) or (b), it is a defence to prove that—

            (a)         the defendant was not negligent; and

            (b)         the act or omission constituting the offence was attributable to an honest mistake on the defendant's part.



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