The Disciplinary Committee, after careful consideration of the evidence, decided the complaint substantiated in that the estate agent had failed to observe Paragraph 3.4.1 of the Code of Ethics to ensure that the absentee vendor had properly authorised the other vendor to sign the provisional sale and purchase agreement on his behalf. However, in view of the fact that the estate agent had already duly advised his clients to pay the deposit to the vendors' solicitors as stakeholders, the Disciplinary Committee only ordered that a warning be issued to the estate agent.