Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The purposes of this part are as follows:
(a) to facilitate the national practice of law by ensuring that Australian legal practitioners can engage in legal practice in the ACT and to provide for the certification of Australian lawyers whether or not admitted in the ACT;
(b) to provide a system for the grant and renewal of local practising certificates.
(2) A regulation may provide that a provision of this part applies with prescribed changes to—
(a) a government lawyer in relation to his or her official functions as a government lawyer; or
(b) an in-house lawyer in relation to the provision of in-house legal services for a corporation by which the lawyer is employed.
(3) In this section:
"in-house lawyer "means an Australian lawyer who—
(a) is employed by a corporation, that is not an incorporated legal practice; and
(b) provides only in-house legal services to the corporation.