Registration of agents

(1) Every person shall, before acting as an agent, be registered as such with the clerk of the court of the judicial district in which the tenement is situate, and if he so acts while his name is not on the register, he commits an offence. (2) The magistrate in charge of any judicial district may authorise the clerk of court of that district to register any fit and proper person as an agent and any person so registered may be removed from the register by order of the magistrate on any ground of misconduct which the magistrate may think sufficient. (3) The clerk of court shall keep a register called the “Landlords’ Agents Register” (hereinbefore in this section referred to as “the register”) in which he shall enter the name, address and occupation of every person whom he has been authorised by the magistrate to register as an agent and he shall remove the name of any agent from the register if directed so to do by the magistrate. (4) The register or an extract therefrom shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the registration, or the non- registration, of a person as an agent. acknowledgment s to be given on