Estate Agents Act 1979

1. Introductory Text

2. Application of Act

   1. 1. Estate agency work

   2. 2. Interests in land

3. Orders by Director General of Fair Trading

   1. 3. Orders prohibiting unfit persons from doing estate agency work

   2. 4. Warning orders

   3. 5. Supplementary provisions as to orders under sections 3 and 4

   4. 6. Revocation and variation of orders under sections 3 and 4

   5. 7. Appeals

   6. 8. Register of orders etc

4. Information, entry and inspection

   1. 9. Information for the Director

   2. 10. Restriction on disclosure of information

   3. 11. Powers of entry and inspection

5. Clients' money and accounts

   1. 12. Meaning of " clients' money " etc

   2. 13. Clients' money held on trust or as agent

   3. 14. Keeping of client accounts

   4. 15. Interest on clients' money

   5. 16. Insurance cover for clients' money

   6. 17. Exemptions from section 16

6. Regulation of other aspects of estate agency work

   1. 18. Information to clients of prospective liabilities

   2. 19. Regulation of pre-contract deposits outside Scotland

7. Supervision, enforcement, publicity etc

   1. 20. Prohibition of pre-contract deposits in Scotland

   2. 21. Transactions in which an estate agent has a personal interest

   3. 22. Standards of competence

   4. 23. Bankrupts not to engage in estate agency work

   5. 24. Supervision by Council on Tribunals

   6. 25. General duties of Director

   7. 26. Enforcement authorities

   8. 27. Obstruction and personation of authorised officers

8. Supplementary

   1. 28. General provisions as to offences

   2. 29. Service of notices etc

   3. 30. Orders and regulations

   4. 31. Meaning of " business associate " and " controller "

   5. 32. Meaning of " associate "

   6. 33. General interpretation provisions

   7. 34. Financial provisions

   8. 35. Scotland

   9. 36. Short title, commencement and extent

9. 1. Schedule 1

      Provisions supplementary to section 3(1)

   2. Schedule 2

      Procedure etc