LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57C Joint rules other than joint rules on foreign lawyers

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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57C

57C Joint rules other than joint rules on foreign lawyers

(1) The Bar Council and Law Society Council may jointly make rules for or with respect to:

(a) any matters about which joint rules are authorised to be made, or

(b) any matters about which they may separately make rules.

(2) Joint rules may but need not apply in the same way to both barristers and solicitors.

(3) Joint rules prevail, to the extent of any inconsistency, over barristers rules or solicitors rules (whether made before or after the joint rules).

(4) If joint rules are made, references in this Act to barristers rules or solicitors rules extend to any such joint rules.

(5) This section does not apply to joint rules made under section 57CA.