287. Warning orders.

The lead enforcement authority¹ is empowered to issue warning orders to persons in respect of whom it is minded to make prohibition orders². The lead enforcement authority may give a person a warning order³ where it is satisfied that, in the course of estate agency work⁴ he has done any of the following⁵:

1.  

   (1)     committed a specified offence under the Estate Agents Act 1979⁶;

2.  

   (2)     committed discrimination⁷;

3.  

   (3)     failed to comply with the specified statutory obligations relating to dealings with clients and clients' money⁸;

4.  

   (4)     acted in relation to residential property⁹ in breach of the duty¹⁰ to be a