New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 54

54 Statutory condition regarding practice as a barrister

(1) It is a statutory condition of a local practising certificate for a barrister (but not a solicitor and barrister) that the barrister must not:

(a) engage in legal practice otherwise than as a sole practitioner, or

(b) engage in legal practice in partnership with any person, or

(c) engage in legal practice as the employee of any person, or

(d) hold office as a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to:

(a) a barrister who is, or who is of a class or description of barristers, specified by the Bar Council for the purposes of this section, or

(b) a barrister who is of a class or description of barristers prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section,

to the extent respectively specified by the Bar Council or prescribed by the regulations.