Fees and payment of fees
3.—(1)  There shall be paid to the Council, in respect of the matters specified in the first column of the Schedule, the fees specified opposite thereto in the second column thereof.
(2)  The licence and registration fees in the Schedule are payable —
(a)as a condition precedent to the grant of an estate agent’s licence or registration of a salesperson; and
(b)annually thereafter.
(2A)  The fees in the Schedule for an application for the renewal of an estate agent’s licence or the renewal of registration as a salesperson are payable for every alternate renewal.
[S 636/2018 wef 01/10/2018]
(3)  Any fee in respect of the registration of a salesperson shall be paid to the Council by the estate agent that the salesperson is to represent.
(4)  The fee in item 10 of the Schedule is not payable in respect of the registration of an individual as a salesperson for a calendar year or part of a calendar year if —
(a)at the time of the application for registration (called in this paragraph the relevant application), the individual is already registered as a salesperson for that calendar year or part of the calendar year (called in this paragraph the existing registration), but the individual intends to cease to work for or to be engaged by the estate agent through which the salesperson was registered;
(b)the relevant application is made through and supported by an estate agent other than the estate agent through which the salesperson’s existing registration was registered; and
(c)the fee in item 10 of the Schedule for the existing registration had been paid.
[S 360/2021 wef 01/06/2021]