(b) a
member of staff of the Commission has all the functions of a solicitor
employed by a person practising as a solicitor on the person's own account,
and
(i) shall observe the same rules and standards of professional
conduct and ethics as those that an Australian legal practitioner is, by law
or the custom of the legal profession, required to observe in the practice of
that profession, and
(ii) are subject to the same professional duties as
those to which an Australian legal practitioner is subject by law or the
custom of the legal profession in the practice of that profession.
(2A) If
the Chief Executive Officer does not hold a current Australian practising
certificate, a reference in subsection (2) to the Chief Executive Officer is
to be read as a reference to the relevant member of staff appointed for the
time being under section 23A.
(3) Nothing in this section affects the
operation of section 25.