New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 56

56 Additional conditions on practising certificates of barristers

(1) Without limiting section 50 (Conditions imposed by Council), the Bar Council may under that section impose conditions of the following kinds on the practising certificate of a barrister:

(a) a condition requiring the holder to undertake and complete to the satisfaction of the Bar Council a full-time component or other component of a reading program applicable to the holder and determined or approved by the Bar Council,

(b) a condition requiring the holder to read with a barrister of a specified class or description chosen by the holder (including a barrister chosen from a list of at least 10 barristers kept by the Bar Council for the purpose) for a specified period and to comply with such requirements as will enable the barrister, at the end of the specified period, to certify to the Bar Council that the holder is fit to practise as a barrister without restriction.

(2) A condition of a kind referred to in subsection (1) that is imposed on the practising certificate of a barrister may limit the practising rights of the barrister until the condition is complied with.

(3) The Bar Council may cancel or suspend a local practising certificate if the holder fails to comply with a condition of the kind referred to in subsection (1).