LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 48N Definitions
This legislation has been repealed.
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 48N
Definitions48N Definitions
In this Act:
"conditions" means conditions, limitations, restrictions or prohibitions.
"corresponding law" means a law of another State or a Territory relating to
regulation of legal practice.
"interstate legal practitioner" means a natural person:
(a) who has been admitted to legal practice in another State or a Territory, and
(b) who holds an interstate practising certificate issued or given by a regulatory authority in that State or Territory, and
(c) whose sole or principal place of legal practice is that State or Territory."interstate practising certificate" means a certificate or other form of authorisation that confers an authority to practise that corresponds to the authority conferred by a practising certificate issued under Part 3 by the Bar Council or the Law Society Council.
"local legal practitioner" means a legal practitioner:
(a) who holds a current practising certificate, and
(b) whose sole or principal place of legal practice is this State,and includes a person who is registered to practise law in this State in accordance with the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.
"regulatory authority":
(a) of this State, means the Supreme Court, the Bar Council, the Law Society Council, the Tribunal or the Commissioner, and
(b) of another State or a Territory, means a person or body in that State or Territory having a function conferred by legislation relating to regulation of legal practice that corresponds to such a function exercised by a regulatory authority of this State.