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The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) has the authority to protect the public interest and ensure that real estate registrants adhere to the REBBA Code of Ethics. When a registrant breaches this code, RECO may impose penalties, which can include levying a fine on the registrant. This fine serves both as a punitive measure and a deterrent to prevent future violations. By enforcing financial penalties, RECO emphasizes the importance of compliance with professional standards in the real estate industry.

Other actions, such as issuing refunds, terminating a brokerage's license, or revoking a brokerage's membership, are not standard responses to a breach of ethics at the individual registrant level. Refunds typically relate to transactional disputes rather than ethical breaches. Termination of a brokerage's license or membership would be considered more severe measures that might apply to broader issues or repeating offenses at the brokerage level, rather than directly addressing a specific registrant's actions. Thus, the imposition of a fine is the correct and standard action taken by RECO in response to ethical breaches.