RES421 Real Estate Law

Task 1: New Zealand law (a) Your branch manager has asked for your help developing some non- verifiable continuing professional development material, as required by the Real Estate Authority. Prepare notes to help your colleagues understand each of the following pieces of legislation. In your notes, for each Act: • give a summary of the purpose of the Act • give advice about how to behave according to the law for each Act • give at least one example of how each Act would be applied to real estate work. Write about the following legislation: (i) Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. (ii) Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. (iii) Human Rights Act 1993. (iv) Privacy Act 1993. (v) Secret Commissions Act 1910. Your answer to each of the above should be approximately 100–150 words. (b) Briefly explain how customers or clients can complain if licensees breach the requirements of any of these Acts. What are the possible consequences? List at least two. Your answer should be approximately 75–100 words. Task 2: Tenancy law You receive a phone call from your friend, Sai, asking for your advice about some problems he’s having with his landlord, Mrs Krazinsky. Sai and two university friends rent a two-storey house from her. They have lived there for just over a year under a periodic tenancy. Sai tells you: ‘Mrs Krazinsky came around to the flat the other day without any warning. The place was a mess because we’d had a party on the weekend and hadn’t tidied up. Joey was upstairs, still in bed, and didn’t even hear her knock. She just came on in. Can she do that? But there’s more. She tried to test the smoke alarm and it didn’t work. Well, we’d taken the batteries out. It’s in the kitchen downstairs, and completely useless. Every time we cooked a meal the stupid thing would go off. I asked her about why there weren’t any smoke alarms upstairs near the bedrooms. She didn’t give me an answer to that