LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 162 Advertising by Australian-registered foreign lawyers

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 162

    (1)     An Australian-registered foreign lawyer is required to comply with any advertising restrictions imposed by the relevant council or by law on legal practice engaged in by an Australian legal practitioner that are relevant to the practice of law in the ACT.

    (2)     Without limiting subsection (1), an Australian-registered foreign lawyer must not advertise (or use any description on the lawyer's letterhead or any other document used in the ACT to identify the lawyer as a lawyer) in any way that—

        (a)     might reasonably be regarded as—

              (i)     false, misleading or deceptive; or

              (ii)     suggesting that the Australian-registered foreign lawyer is an Australian legal practitioner; or

        (b)     contravenes a regulation.