Notices of suspension

Notices of licence suspension or revocation or imposition of conditions or restrictions on a licence.

The Discipline Committee has the power to suspend, revoke or impose conditions or restrictions on a licence if the licence holder violates the Real Estate Brokerage Act and its regulations.

In such a case, a notice of the Committee’s decision must be published or inserted in an official or regular publication of the OACIQ or on its website. Furthermore, the Discipline Committee may decide to have a notice of its decision published in a local newspaper of the area where the licence holder’s establishment is located.

The notices of licence suspension or revocation or imposition of conditions or restrictions on a licence are public.

CLARIFICATION REGARDING THE REFERENCE TO THE BROKER (now called agency) IN THE NOTICES PUBLISHED BEFORE
MAY 1, 2010

The Real Estate Brokerage Act and its regulations that was in force before May 1, 2010 required that the notices of certificate (now called licence) suspension refer to the place of practice of the person concerned at the time the suspension of his certificate took place or, if not, to his last place of practice. This “place of practice’’ represented the area where the broker (now called agency) that employed or authorized the person to act on its behalf or, if not, the area where the last broker (now called agency) that employed or authorized him to act on its behalf
was located.

Therefore, in the notices published before May 1, 2010, the reference to the broker (now called agency) that employed or authorized the person, referred to in the notice at the time of its publication, to act on its behalf does not necessarily imply that the licence holder was employed or authorized to act on behalf of this broker (now called agency) at the time he committed the offences for which he was found guilty.