LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 47O Investigation of incorporated legal practices

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 47O

47O Investigation of incorporated legal practices

(1) Section 55 and section 152 apply (subject to this section) to corporations that are or were incorporated legal practices in the same way that they apply to persons who are or were solicitors or legal practitioners.

(2) An investigation under either of those sections extends to all of the affairs of an incorporated legal practice and to all of its documents, so long as the investigation relates to the provision of legal services.

(3) The regulations may:

(a) extend the powers of investigation under section 55 or section 152 in relation to incorporated legal practices by reference to any powers of investigation conferred on the Australian Securities and Investment Commission under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth or under any Commonwealth Act with respect to the affairs of a corporation, and

(b) require a copy of any document that is to be furnished by an incorporated legal practice to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth to be furnished also to the Law Society Council or the Commissioner, or both, and

(c) make other modifications to the application of section 55 or section 152 for the purposes of this section.