LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 209 Provision of legal services etc by complying community centre

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 209

    (1)     A complying community legal centre does not contravene this Act only because—

        (a)     it employs, or otherwise uses the services of, Australian legal practitioners to provide legal services to members of the public; or

        (b)     it has a contractual relationship with a member of the public to whom the legal services are provided or receives any fee, gain or reward for providing the legal services; or

        (c)     it shares with an Australian legal practitioner employed or otherwise used by it to provide the legal services receipts, revenue or other income arising from the business of the centre of a kind usually conducted by an Australian legal practitioner; or

        (d)     it adopts or uses the word ‘legal' or a name, title or description to which section 18 (Presumptions about taking or using certain names, titles or descriptions) applies (or a related term) in its name or any registered business name under which it provides legal services to members of the public.

    (2)     Subsection (1) has effect despite anything to the contrary in this Act.

    (3)     A regulation may make provision in relation to—

        (a)     the application (with any prescribed changes) of a provision of this Act to a complying community legal centre; and

        (b)     the legal services provided by a complying community legal centre.

    (4)     A regulation may provide that a breach of a regulation in relation to a complying community legal centre can be unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct by an Australian legal practitioner responsible for the breach.

    (5)     A provision of the legal profession rules that applies to an Australian legal practitioner also applies to an Australian legal practitioner who is an officer or employee of, or whose services are used by, a complying community legal centre, unless the rules otherwise provide.

    (6)     In this section:

"fee, gain or reward "means any form of, and any expectation of, a fee, gain or reward.