LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 187 Immediate suspension of registration as foreign lawyer

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 187

    (1)     This section applies, despite division 2.7.6 (Amendment, suspension or cancellation of local registration of foreign lawyer) and division 2.7.7 (Special powers in relation to local registration of foreign layer—show-cause events), if the relevant council considers it necessary in the public interest to immediately suspend a person's local registration as a foreign lawyer on—

        (a)     any of the grounds on which the registration could be suspended or cancelled under division 2.7.6; or

        (b)     the ground of the happening of a show-cause event in relation to the person; or

        (c)     any other ground the relevant council considers justifies immediate suspension of the registration in the public interest;

whether or not any action has been taken or started under division 2.7.6 or division 2.7.7 in relation to the person.

    (2)     The relevant council may, by written notice given to the person, immediately suspend the registration until the earlier of the following:

        (a)     the relevant council gives the person an information notice under section 178 (3) (Amending, suspending or cancelling registration of foreign lawyer);

        (b)     the relevant council gives the person written notice under section 178  (4);

        (c)     the relevant council gives the person an information notice under section 184 (3) (Refusal, amendment, suspension or cancellation of local registration as foreign lawyer—failure to show cause etc);

        (d)     the relevant council gives the person written notice under section 184 (4);

        (e)     the period of 56 days after the day the notice is given to the person under this section ends.

    (3)     The notice must—

        (a)     include an information notice about the suspension; and

        (b)     state that the person may make written representations to the relevant council about the suspension.

    (4)     The person may make written representations to the relevant council about the suspension, and the relevant council must consider the representations.

    (5)     The relevant council may revoke the suspension at any time, whether or not in response to any written representations made to it by the person.