LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57CB Commissioner and Advisory Council to be notified of proposed rules
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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57CB
Commissioner and Advisory Council to be notified of proposed rules57CB Commissioner and Advisory Council to be notified of proposed rules
(1) Each Council must notify the Commissioner and the Advisory Council of its intention to make a barristers rule, solicitors rule or joint rule.
(2) The notification must be in writing and must give details of the proposal.
(3) A Council that gives a notification under this section must wait at least 28 days after giving the notification before making the rule and must take into account any representations on the proposed rule made by the Commissioner or the Advisory Council.
(4) A Council may make a rule without waiting for the 28-day period referred to in subsection (3) to expire if the Council considers that the urgency of the case warrants immediate action. However, in those circumstances the Council must indicate in its notification to the Commissioner and the Advisory Council that the case is urgent and that it intends to act immediately.