Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1970 (REPEALED) - SECT 4

    (1)     The Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory is hereby constituted a body corporate by the name ‘The Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory'.

    (2)     The law society—

        (a)     has perpetual succession; and

        (b)     shall have a common seal; and

        (c)     may acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property; and

        (d)     may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

    (3)     All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the law society affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.

    (4)     The constitution of the law society is, subject to this Act, the constitution of The Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory as in force immediately before the commencement of this part.

    (5)     An amendment of the constitution of the law society shall not take effect unless it is approved by the Attorney-General.

    (6)     An amendment of the constitution of the law society that is approved by the Attorney-General takes effect—

        (a)     where the amendment specifies a day on which it is to take effect, being a day not earlier than the day on which the Attorney-General approves the amendment—on the day so specified; and

        (b)     in any other case—on the day on which the Attorney-General approves the amendment.

    (7)     Any property held, immediately before the commencement of this part, by a person, in trust or otherwise, for or on behalf of The Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory is, subject to any charge or liability affecting the property, vested in the law society.

    (8)     A person is not entitled to be a member of the law society unless his or her name is on, or is to be taken to be on, the roll of legal practitioners.

    (9)     A person who holds a practising certificate is entitled, on application to the law society, to be admitted to membership of the society without paying a fee for admission.

    (10)     A member of the law society is not, while the member holds a practising certificate, liable to pay to the society any annual subscription to the society's funds.