Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 3) 1991 (NO 92 OF 1991)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act (No. 3) 1991.  
   2.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Legal Practitioners Act 1970.1  
   3.      Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   4.      Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   5.      Section 6B of the Principal Act is amended—  
   6.      Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (5) and substituting the following subsection:  
   7.      Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (2) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:  
   8.      Section 15E of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subparagraph (1) (a) (iii) “of the Commonwealth” after “Department”.  
   9.      Section 15H of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) “applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with creditors or makes an assignment of remuneration for the benefit of creditors,” after “bankrupt,”.  
   10.     Section 25A of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:  
   11.     Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:  
   12.     Section 30 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3B) “$500” and substituting “$1,000”.  
   13.     Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the penalty at the foot of subsection (2) and substituting the following penalty:  
   14.     Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   15.     Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   16.     Section 39 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) all the words after “travelling expenses” and substituting “as the person would be entitled to receive if he or she was appearing as a witness before the Supreme Court.”.  
   17.     Section 42K of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   18.     Section 42M is amended—  
   19.     Section 42O of the Principal Act is amended—  
   20.     Section 42P of the Principal Act is amended—  
   21.     Section 42Q of the Principal Act is amended—  
   22.     Section 58 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   23.     Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   24.     Section 65 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   25.     Section 67 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   26.     Section 68 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   27.     Section 74A of the Principal Act is amended—  
   28.     Section 74B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (2) “an account referred to in sub-section 74A (2)” and substituting “a Statutory Interest Account”.  
   29.     Section 74C of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (e) “an account referred to in sub-section 74A (2)” and substituting “a Statutory Interest Account”.  
   30.     Section 75 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (2).  
   31.     Section 76 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “an account maintained in accordance with sub-section (2) of section 74A of this Act” and substituting “a Statutory Interest Account”.  
   33.     Section 82 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (2) “reason of a failure to account by” after “notice by”.  
   34.     Section 93 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “defalcation of trust moneys of a solicitor or of” and “been committed” (first occurring) and substituting “failure to account (within the meaning of Division 2 of Part VIII) by a solicitor or” and “occurred” respectively.  
   35.     Section 94 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   36.     Section 107 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   37.     Section 122 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the penalty at the foot of the section and substituting the following penalty:  
   38.     Section 123 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the penalty at the foot of subsection (1) and substituting the following penalty:  
   39.     Section 124 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the penalty at the foot of subsection (1) and substituting the following penalty:  
   40.     Section 125 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   41.     Part XII of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   42.     Each of the following provisions of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Companies Act 1981 of the Commonwealth” and substituting “Corporations Law”: