LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 48ZS Scope of practice

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 48ZS

48ZS Scope of practice

(1) A locally registered foreign lawyer may provide only the following legal services:

(a) doing any work, or transacting any business, in the State concerning the law of any place in which the locally registered foreign lawyer is registered by a home registration authority of the lawyer,

(b) legal services (including appearances) in relation to arbitration proceedings in the State of a kind prescribed by the regulations,

(c) legal services (including appearances) in relation to proceedings before courts and other bodies in which knowledge of the foreign law of the place referred to in paragraph (a) is essential,

(d) legal services in relation to conciliation, mediation and other forms of consensual dispute resolution in the State of a kind prescribed by the regulations.

(2) Nothing in this Act authorises a locally registered foreign lawyer to practise Australian law.

(3) Despite subsection (2), a locally registered foreign lawyer may advise on the effect of an Australian law if the giving of advice on Australian law is necessarily incidental to the practice of foreign law and the advice is expressly based on advice given on the Australian law by a domestic lawyer who is not an employee of the foreign lawyer.