LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 128 Legal practitioner to whom Part applies
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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 128
Legal practitioner to whom Part applies128 Legal practitioner to whom Part applies
(1) This Part applies to any legal practitioner, including:(a) a legal practitioner who does not hold a practising certificate, and(c) a person who was a legal practitioner when the unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct the subject of a complaint allegedly occurred but who is no longer a legal practitioner (in which case this Part applies as if the person were still a legal practitioner).
(2) However, this Part does not apply:(a) to a judicial officer within the meaning of the Judicial Officers Act 1986 , or(b) to a Justice of the High Court, or(c) to a judge of a court created by the Parliament of the Commonwealth,regardless of whether the unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct the subject of a complaint allegedly occurred before or after the person's appointment as such a judicial officer, Justice or judge.
(3) This Part applies to a person who is or was an interstate legal practitioner only if the person practises or practised as a barrister or solicitor and barrister in this State.
Note: This Part also applies to locally registered foreign lawyers. See section 48ZV.