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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 161 Letterhead and other identifying documents of Australian-registered foreign lawyers

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 161

Letterhead and other identifying documents of Australian-registered foreign lawyers

    (1)     An Australian-registered foreign lawyer must indicate, in each public document distributed by the lawyer in relation to the lawyer's practice of foreign law, the fact that the lawyer is an Australian-registered foreign lawyer and is restricted to the practice of foreign law.

    (2)     Subsection (1) is satisfied if the lawyer includes in the public document the words—

        (a)     ‘registered foreign lawyer' or ‘registered foreign practitioner'; and

        (b)     ‘entitled to practise foreign law only'.

    (3)     An Australian-registered foreign lawyer may (but need not) include either or both of the following on any public document:

        (a)     an indication of all foreign countries in which the lawyer is registered to engage in legal practice;

        (b)     a description of the lawyer, and any law practice with which the lawyer is affiliated or associated, in any of the ways designated in section 160.

    (4)     In this section:

"public document" includes any business letter, statement of account, invoice, business card, and promotional and advertising material.