New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 55

55 Statutory condition regarding notification of offence

(1) It is a statutory condition of a local practising certificate that the holder of the certificate:

(a) must notify the appropriate Council that the holder has been:

(i) convicted of an offence that would have to be disclosed under the admission rules in relation to an application for admission to the legal profession under this Act, or

(ii) charged with a serious offence, and

(b) must do so within 7 days of the event and by a written notice.

(2) The regulations, or the legal profession rules if the regulations do not do so, may specify the form of the notice to be used and the person to whom or the address to which it is to be sent or delivered.

(3) The giving of notice in accordance with Division 7 (Special powers in relation to local practising certificates-show cause events) of a conviction for a serious offence satisfies the requirements of subsection (1) (a) (i) in relation to the conviction.