Tranche 2, plainly · Episode 2
The single most important question under this law is not who you are. It is what you do. The regime covers a specific list of services — and if you provide one, you are in.
It's a list, not a label
You aren't captured for being a lawyer, or an agent, or an accountant. You are captured for providing a designated service — a precise activity the Act names in three tables: table two, table five, and table six.
1 — brokering the sale, purchase or transfer of real estate on behalf of a buyer, seller, transferee or transferor in the course of carrying on a business Customer of the designated service: both (a) the seller or transferor; and (b) the buyer or transferee
1 — assisting a person in the planning or execution of a transaction, or otherwise acting for or on behalf of a person in a transaction, to sell, buy or otherwise transfer real estate, where: (a) the service is provided in the course of carrying on a business; … Customer of the designated service: the person
Provide one, and you're in
You don't have to provide all thirteen. One is enough. And the duties attach to that service — not to everything your business happens to do.
That is the whole idea. Function, not profession. Find your service in the tables, and you will know exactly where the law touches your work — and where it doesn't.
Thirteen designated services. Three tables. Provide one, and the regime is yours. It really is that concrete.