LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 38FI Powers when investigating matter under this Division

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 38FI

38FI Powers when investigating matter under this Division

(1) For the purpose of investigating a matter under this Division, a Council or the Commissioner may, by notice in writing served on any legal practitioner, require the legal practitioner to do any one or more of the following:

(a) to provide written information, by a date specified in the notice, and to verify the information by statutory declaration,

(b) to produce, at a time and place specified in the notice, any document (or copy of any document) specified in the notice,

(c) to otherwise assist in, or cooperate with, the investigation in a specified manner.

(2) A Council or the Commissioner may inspect any document produced before the Council or the Commissioner under this section and may retain it for such period as the Council or Commissioner thinks necessary for the purposes of an investigation in relation to which it was produced. A Council or the Commissioner may make copies of the document or any part of the document.

(3) A requirement under this section is to specify a reasonable time for compliance.

(4) A legal practitioner must not mislead or obstruct a Council or the Commissioner in the exercise of any function under this Division.