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Legal Issues.
I am mindful that in Singapore there is the Estate Agents Act (CHAPTER 95A). However, as I do not perform “estate agency work”, subject to subsection (3), means any work done in the course of business for a client or any work done for or in expectation of any fee (whether or not in the course of business) for a client —
(a) being work done in relation to the introduction to the client of a third person who wishes to acquire or dispose of a property, or to the negotiation for the acquisition or disposition of a property by the client; or
(b)being work done, after the introduction to the client of a third person who wishes to acquire or dispose of a property or the negotiation for the acquisition or disposition of a property by the client, in relation to the acquisition or disposition, as the case may be, of the property by the client;
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that —
(a) references in this Act to estate agency work are not to be construed as including references to work which relates solely to a survey, to a valuation or to a disposition by way of auction or tender; and
(b)references in this Act to an estate agent without qualification are not to be construed as including references to an auctioneer whose function is solely to conduct an auction.
Further, there is exemption for users (property owners) selling/buying under Section 4(1)(f) and when it is via auction (in Section 3(b). .
Excluded activities and persons
4.—(1) This Act does not apply to anything done —
(a) by an executor, administrator, trustee, liquidator, receiver, trustee or assignee of a bankrupt for the purposes of or in connection with the performance of his functions as such;
(b)by a solicitor, in the course of practising his profession, or by any person employed by him and acting in furtherance of that course, in introducing to the client, third persons who wish to acquire or dispose of a property (whether for remuneration or otherwise), if the solicitor and any person employed by him do not perform any other work that falls within the definition of “estate agency work” in section 3;
(c)by an appraiser within the meaning of the Appraisers Act (Cap. 16) when valuing or appraising property;
(d)by any person in connection with a mortgage or other charge on property, whether done as regards its creation, transfer, assignment or otherwise;
(e)in connection with the publication of advertisements or the dissemination of information by any person who does no other work which falls within the definition of “estate agency work” in section 3;
(f)by any person as the vendor or purchaser, or where there is more than one vendor or purchaser, a vendor or purchaser of a property in connection with —
(i)where the person is the vendor or a vendor of the property, the disposition of the property; or
(ii)where the person is the purchaser or a purchaser of the property, the acquisition of the property;
(g)by any person in connection with a property pursuant to instructions received by him in the course of his employment, in so far as such thing would have been within the scope of paragraph (f) if done by his employer;
(h)by any person in relation to a present, prospective or former employee of his or of any person by whom he also is employed if the thing is done by reason of the employment (whether past, present or future); and
(i)by the Government or by any body that is established or constituted by or under a public Act for a public function when acting on behalf of the Government or exercising a public function.
