New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2005 - REG 10A

10A Application for grant of local practising certificate by prescribed classes of lawyers-section 45 of the Act

(1) For the purposes of section 45 (10) of the Act, Australian lawyers of the following classes or descriptions are prescribed as being eligible to apply for the grant or renewal of local practising certificates:

(a) Members of the Parliament of the State,

(b) Members of the Parliament of the Commonwealth who reasonably expect to reside in New South Wales during the currency of the local practising certificate or renewal applied for.

(2) A Council has a discretion as to whether or not to grant or renew a local practising certificate to a person in his or her capacity as an Australian lawyer of a class or description referred to in subclause (1).