RICS online ethics assessment for Technical Membership candidates
Please choose either A, B, or C from the answers below.
Read each question carefully. Answering correctly will provide you a link to the next question.
There are nine questions in total. Please ignore the scoring message.
At the end of an exercise you will be asked to print off and sign an declaration.
1. Act with integrity.
Never put your own gain above the welfare of your clients or others to whom you have a professional responsibility. Respect their confidentiality at all times and always consider the wider interests of society in you judgements.
Your client – a landlord – has not yet had time to ensure that his properties comply with new landlord legislation. He instructs you – his management company contact – to act in conflict with legal requirements by using delaying tactics to defer implementation. Your refusal to do so may harm your lucrative business relationship, leading to financial loss.
However, to comply with the client’s wishes may endanger the lives of his tenants. What should you do?
The client is always right – I would act upon his instruction to maintain our professional relationship.
Ignore the client’s wishes – he should have known better than to ask me.
Explain to the client that acting on his instruction would lead to illegal activity. If he still wishes to proceed then advise him that the management contract will be terminated.
