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Property Valuers Profession Act, 2000 (Act No. 47 of 2000)

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Rules for the Property Valuers Profession Amendment, 2022

Part VII : Candidates and valuations

16. Candidates prohibited from canvassing valuation work

 

(1) A candidate in any category of registration must at all times and circumstances comply with section 19(3) of the Act, read with item 8 of Annexure C.1 or item 8 of Annexure C.2, as the case may be, which provides clearly that he/she may perform work in the property valuers profession only under the supervision and control of a professional ("the supervisor or mentor") and, consequently, that he/she or any person or body for or on his/her behalf—
(a) shall not canvass or solicit valuation work or publish his/her services in his/her capacity as a candidate;
(b) shall accept an instruction or request to assist in the performance of a property valuation only from his /her supervisor or mentor or another professional ("the instructing professional"), which instruction or request shall—
(i) be in writing, stating the name, registration category and postal address of the instructing professional;
(ii) contain the name of the person requiring the property valuation ("the client"), the registration particulars and description of the property to be valued, the type of registration particulars and description of the property to be valued; type of property; the purpose of the valuation; and the work to be performed by the candidate; and
(iii) form part of the resulting valuation report.
(c) shall, if requested by any person or body ("the client") to perform property valuation work, refer the client or the request to an instructing professional;
(d) except where a candidate is in fact also the client he/she shall not, directly or indirectly, instruct a professional to perform property valuation work for a client.

 

(2) A professional shall not, directly or indirectly, take instructions from a candidate, or any person other than a client or his/her duly appointed agent, to perform property valuation work for that client.

 

(3) The statement of account for services rendered in respect of property valuation work performed as a result of an instruction or request referred to in sub-rule (1)(b), shall be issued by and in the name of the instructing professional or his/her practice, and payment thereof shall be made only to him/her or the practice, as the case may be.