New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2005 - REG 8A

8A Prohibition on engaging in legal practice when not entitled-section 14 of the Act

For the purposes of section 14 (2) (h) of the Act, legal practice engaged in by an industrial organisation registered under the Industrial Relations Act 1996 , or an organisation registered under Schedule 1 to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 of the Commonwealth, is prescribed as a kind of legal practice to which section 14 (1) of the Act does not apply, but only to the extent that:

(a) the legal services concerned are provided to members of the organisation, and

(b) the legal services are not provided for fee, gain or reward to the organisation (other than standard membership fees), and

(c) the legal services are provided by Australian legal practitioners, and

(d) if any of the legal services are provided by an Australian legal practitioner who does not hold an unrestricted practising certificate-those legal services are provided under the supervision of an Australian legal practitioner who holds an unrestricted practising certificate.