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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Interpret legal principles and legislative requirements affecting conveyancing transactions
   • Identify legal framework of conveyancing practice
   • Interpret components of statute law and their relationships with respect to their application to conveyancing practice
   • Access legislation and regulations relevant to the provision of conveyancing services
   • Identify and analyse relevant case law for legal principles
2. Interpret legislative requirements affecting conveyancing transactions
   • Interpret and analyse the structure of legislation and regulations that relate to conveyancing transactions
   • Analyse common interpretation problems
   • Apply rules and techniques for interpreting legislation and regulations in conveyancing transactions
3. Track and interpret changes to legislation and regulations affecting agency operations
   • Identify processes that lead to changes in legislation and regulations
   • Access source documents for amendment legislation relevant to the provision of conveyancing services
   • Establish a process and technique for tracking amendments to legislation and regulations
   • Interpret and address implications of changes to legislative and regulatory requirements in line with agency procedures
   • Communicate changes to legislative and regulatory requirements to appropriate people in line with agency policy and procedures
4. Comply with relevant codes of conduct
   • Source and access codes of conduct
   • Interpret relationship between industry codes of conduct and legislative requirements
   • Apply key principles and responsibilities of codes of conduct to own work in line with industry practice
   • Ensure personal ethical behaviour complies with relevant codes of conduct
5. Maintain records of legislation and industry codes
   • Identify practice processes and the personnel responsible for monitoring and communicating changes to legislation and industry codes of conduct
   • Maintain relevant records of legislation and codes of conduct