LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 28 Solicitors and barristers

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 28

28 Solicitors and barristers

(1) The Law Society Council may, on application, grant a practising certificate to a legal practitioner authorising the practitioner to practise as a solicitor and barrister.

(2) A legal practitioner who does not hold a current practising certificate as a solicitor and barrister may at any time apply to the Law Society Council for a practising certificate unless there is in force an order of the Tribunal preventing the issue of the certificate.

(3) A legal practitioner who holds a current practising certificate as a solicitor and barrister may, during the prescribed period before the certificate expires, apply to the Law Society Council for a new practising certificate.

(4) Subsection (3) does not prevent the Law Society Council from accepting an application made after the prescribed period and before the next 1 July.