Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

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

NOTES

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 30 November 1996. See also Acts Nos 26 and 89, 1997.

Penalty units

See section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967.

Section headings

On the day on which the Legal Practitioners Act 1970 is amended by this Act, in addition to any alteration of section headings indicated in the text of this Act, headings to sections of the Principal Act are altered as set out in the following table:

Section

Alteration

7 Omit “Barristers and Solicitors”, substitute “Legal Practitioners”.

62 Omit “Supreme”.

67 Omit “Supreme”.

193 Add at the end “for reward”.

194 Add at the end “for reward”.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 23 September 1997]

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No. 95 of 1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section

11. Application for admission or enrolment

12. Enrolment of persons entitled to registration under the Mutual Recognition Act

13. Copies of applications to Admission Board and Law

Society

15. Response to applications by Law Society

16. Enrolment of New Zealand practitioners—action by

Registrar and Law Society

16A. Enrolment of practitioners under the Mutual Recognition Act—action by Registrar and Law Society

16B. Admission or entitlement to enrolment or registration

16C. Roll of legal practitioners

16D. Entry of names on Roll

PART VII—SOLICITORS' PRACTISING CERTIFICATES

Division 1—Preliminary

21. Interpretation

Division 2—Requirement

22. Practising certificates required

Division 3—Application

23. Restrictions on persons who may apply

24. Applications for practising certificates

Division 4—Issue

25. Issuing authority

26. Issue of certificates—generally

27. Issue of unrestricted practising certificates

28. Issue of restricted practising certificates

29. Issue of practising certificates to practitioners enrolled

under the Mutual Recognition Act

30. Notice of refusal to issue practising certificates

31. Powers of Court relating to issue of practising

certificates

32. Application to Court by person not qualified under

subsection 27 (1)

33. Issue of certificates conditionally or unconditionally

34. Powers of Court relating to conditions on practising certificates

Division 5—Surrender

35. Surrender of practising certificates

Division 6—Suspension and cancellation

36. Suspension

36A. Cancellation

36B. Notice of cancellation or suspension

36C. Delivery of cancelled certificate to Law Society etc.

36D. Powers of Court relating to cancellation or suspension of practising certificates

Division 7—Miscellaneous

36E. Fees for practising certificates

36F. Date of effect and term of practising certificates

36G. Register of holders of practising certificates

36H. Notice of change of circumstances

76. Approval of indemnity insurance

77. Indemnity insurance taken to be approved

78. Maintenance of indemnity insurance

PART X—INDEMNITY FUNDS

82. Interpretation

83. Approval of funds

99. Receipts for trust moneys

99B. Monthly statements relating to trust moneys

198A. Review by Tribunal

198B. Notification of decisions

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Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act
(No. 3) 1997

No. 95 of 1997

[Notified in ACT Gazette S380: 1 December 1997]