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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 29A Fee for practising certificate--barristers

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 29A

Fee for practising certificate--barristers

29A Fee for practising certificate--barristers

(1) A fee is payable for the issue of a practising certificate authorising a legal practitioner to practise as a barrister of such amount as is determined by the Bar Council and approved by the Attorney General.
(2) The Bar Council may determine different practising certificate fees according to such different factors as are specified in the determination and approved by the Attorney General.
(3) The Bar Council may waive payment of the practising certificate fee or any part of the fee.
(4) Subject to the regulations (if any), the Bar Council is to determine the practising certificate fee on a cost recovery basis, with the fee being such amount as is required from time to time for the purpose of recovering the costs of or associated with the regulatory functions of the Bar Council or Bar Association.
(5) The "regulatory functions" of the Bar Council or Bar Association are the functions of the Bar Council or Bar Association under this Act, and any other functions the Bar Council or Bar Association exercises that are associated with the regulation of legal practice or maintaining professional standards of legal practice.
(6) The practising certificate fee is not to include any charge for membership of the Bar Association and is not to include any amount that is required for the purpose of recovering any costs of or associated with providing services or benefits to which barristers become entitled as members of the Bar Association.
Note: Section 57M provides for membership of the Bar Association. It is not compulsory for barristers to be members of the Bar Association.
(7) In addition, in determining the practising certificate fee, the Bar Council must exclude costs that are otherwise recoverable under this Act (for example, costs payable from the Public Purpose Fund under Division 2 of Part 6).
(8) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the determination of practising certificate fees, including by specifying the costs that may or may not be recovered by the charging of practising certificate fees.
(9) In this section, "costs" includes expenses.