New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 15

15 Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice when not entitled

(1) A person must not represent or advertise that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice unless the person is an Australian legal practitioner.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A director, officer, employee or agent of a body corporate must not represent or advertise that the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice unless the body corporate is an incorporated legal practice or a complying community legal centre.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a representation or advertisement about being entitled to engage in legal practice of a kind referred to in section 14 (2) (Prohibition on engaging in legal practice when not entitled) by a person so entitled.

(4) A reference in this section to a person:

(a) representing or advertising that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice, or

(b) representing or advertising that a body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice,

includes a reference to the person doing anything that states or implies that the person or the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice.