New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 199

199 Duration of registration

(1) Registration as a foreign lawyer granted under this Act is in force from the day specified in the local registration certificate until the end of the financial year in which it is granted, unless the registration is sooner suspended or cancelled.

(2) Registration as a foreign lawyer renewed under this Act is in force until the end of the financial year following its previous period of currency, unless the registration is sooner suspended or cancelled.

(3) If an application for the renewal of registration as a foreign lawyer has not been determined by the following 1 July, the registration:

(a) continues in force on and from that 1 July until the domestic registration authority renews or refuses to renew the registration or the holder withdraws the application for renewal, unless the registration is sooner suspended or cancelled, and

(b) if renewed, is taken to have been renewed on and from that 1 July.