estate agent

a)	means any person who for the acquisition of gain on his own account or in partnership, in any manner holds himself out as a person who, or directly or indirectly advertises that he, on the instructions of or on behalf of any other person--

i)	sells or purchases or publicly exhibits for sale immovable property or any business undertaking or negotiates in connection therewith or canvasses or undertakes or offers to canvass a seller or purchaser therefor; or

ii)	lets or hires or publicly exhibits for hire immovable property or any business undertaking or negotiates in connection therewith or canvasses or undertakes or offers to canvass a lessee or lessor therefor; or

iii)	collects or receives any moneys payable on account of a lease of immovable property or any business undertaking; or

iv)	renders any such other service as the Minister on the recommendation of the board may specify from time to time by notice in the Gazette;

b)	for purposes of section 3(2)(a), includes any director of a company or a member who is competent and entitled to take part in the running of the business and the management, or a manager who is an officer, of a close corporation which is an estate agent as defined in paragraph (a);

c)	for purposes of sections 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 26, 27, 30, 33 and 34B,includes--

i)	any director of a company, or a member referred to in paragraph (b), of a close corporation which is an estate agent as defined in paragraph (a); and

ii)	any person who is employed by an estate agent as defined in paragraph (a) and performs on his behalf any act referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii) of the said paragraph;

cA)

for the purposes of section 7, 9(1)(a), 16, 26, 27, 28 and 33, includes any person who is employed by an attorney or a professional company as defined in section 1 of the Attorneys Act, 1979 (Act No. 53 of 1979), otherwise than as an attorney or an articled clerk, and whose duties consist wholly or primarily of the performance of any act referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (a) on behalf of such attorney or professional company;

does not include an attorney who, on his own account or as partner in a firm of attorneys or as member of a professional company, as defined in section 1 of the Attorneys Act, 1979 (Act No. 53 of 1979), or an articled clerk as defined in the said section of that Act, who performs any act referred to in paragraph (a), in the course of and in the name of and from the premises of such attorney's or professional company's practice: Provided that such an act is not performed--

i)	in partnership with any person other than a partner in the practice of that attorney as defined in section 1 of the Attorneys Act, 1979 (Act No. 53 of 1979); or

ii)	through the medium of or as a director of a company other than such professional company;

for the purposes of section 30(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) and of regulations made under section 33(1)(h), includes any person who was an estate agent at the time when he or she was guilty of any act or omission which allegedly constitutes conduct deserving of sanction referred to in section 30:

Provided that, for the purposes of this definition, "advertise" does not include to advertise in compliance with the provisions of any law;