Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO 95 OF 1997)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act (No. 3) 1997.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Legal Practitioners Act 1970.1  
   4.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   5.      The heading to Part VI of the Principal Act is omitted and the following heading substituted:  
           “PART VI--ADMISSION OR ENROLMENT OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS”.
   6.      Sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted:  
   7.      Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   8.      Sections 15 and 16 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted:  
   9.      Part VII of the Principal Act is repealed and the following Part substituted:  

   PART VII--SOLICITORS' PRACTISING CERTIFICATES

   10.     Sections 75A, 76, 77 and 78 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted:  
   11.     Section 81 of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   12.     Part X of the Principal Act is repealed and the following Part substituted:  

   PART X--INDEMNITY FUNDS

   13.     Section 86 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following definition:“ ‘banking day', in relation to a trust account that has been opened at or is maintained at a bank, means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday on which the bank is open for business;”.  
   14.     Section 90 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   15.     Section 91 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   16.     Section 93 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (a) and (b) “$1,000” (wherever occurring) and substituting “$5,000”.  
   17.     Section 99 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:  
   18.     After section 99A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:  
   19.     After section 198 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:  
   20.     The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the Schedule.  
           SCHEDULE