Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1996 (NO 2 OF 1996)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1996.  
   2.      This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.  
   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 XI of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “TRUST ACCOUNTS” and substituting “CONTROLLED MONEYS”.  
   6.      Section 87 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:  
   7.      Section 87A of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   8.      After section 99 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:  
   9.      Section 148 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   10.     Section 200 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (5).  
   11.     The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the Schedule.  
   12.     In respect of the period commencing on 23 November 1994 and ending immediately before the commencement of this Act, the provisions of Part XI of the Principal Act shall be taken to have operated as if the term “controlled moneys” did not include a reference to valuable securities.  
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