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📜 Land Valuers Licensing Amendment Bill 2025

Legislative Assembly Second ReadingLABill 3718 September 2025

This bill amends the Land Valuers Licensing Act 1978 to allow for licensing of residential land valuers, streamlines qualification updates, clarifies licence renewal processes, and makes administrative changes to improve productivity and lower costs.

Impact

Land valuers, particularly those specializing in residential properties, will be affected. The changes aim to lower costs for industry and consumers by allowing more valuers to become licensed.

Key Changes

["Allows licensing of valuers for residential land only", "Streamlines the process for updating qualifications for licensing", "Clarifies the timeframe for late licence renewals"]

Parliamentary Progress

  1. LA IntroducedLA18 Sept 2025
  2. LA Second Reading SpeechLA18 Sept 2025
  3. LA Second Reading MovedLA18 Sept 2025
Affected Sectors
financehousingconstruction

Penalty Provisions4 found

regulatory · administrative · infringement
s. 17(1)Regulatory

Failure to accompany application for a licence with the prescribed fee.

(1) An application for a licence must be — (a) made in the approved form; and (b) accompanied by the prescribed fee.

s. 22(3)Administrative

Failure to accompany late application for renewal of a licence with the prescribed fee for a late application.

(3) If the application is made after the expiry day, the 27 application must be accompanied by the prescribed fee 28 for a late application.

s. 23AAdministrative

Fee for a duplicate licence.

If a licensed valuer’s licence has been lost or 9 destroyed, the Commissioner may issue a duplicate 10 licence to the licensed valuer on payment of the 11 prescribed fee by the licensed valuer.

s. 35AInfringementcross reference

Infringement notices and Criminal Procedure Act 2004

Ref: Criminal Procedure Act 2004 Part 2

35A. Infringement notices and Criminal Procedure 8 Act 2004 9 (1) If this Act is a prescribed Act for the purposes of the 10 Criminal Procedure Act 2004 Part 2, this section 11 applies in relation to the service of an infringement 12 notice under that Part by an authorised officer in 13 relation to an alleged offence under this Act.

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