New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 20

20 Proceedings on prohibition orders

(1) The parties to an application to the Tribunal under this Division may be represented by an Australian legal practitioner at the hearing of the application.

(2) On making an order under this Division, or on determining an application for approval under section 17 (Associates who are disqualified or convicted persons), the Tribunal may make orders for costs.

(3) An order for costs:

(a) may be for a specified amount or an unspecified amount, and

(b) if for an unspecified amount, may specify the basis on which the amount is to be determined, and

(c) may specify the terms on which costs must be paid.

(4) A Council must:

(a) retain in its office a register of orders made under section 18 or 19 on its application or approvals given by it under section 17, and

(b) permit the register to be inspected during office hours and without charge, but only if the inspection is made by an Australian legal practitioner.

(5) In any proceedings under this Act, a document that purports:

(a) to be an order under section 18 or 19, and

(b) to be signed by the member constituting, or presiding at the sitting of, the Tribunal when the order was made,

is, without further proof, evidence of the order it purports to be.