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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57GA Review of rules requested by Commissioner

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57GA

Review of rules requested by Commissioner

57GA Review of rules requested by Commissioner

(1) The Commissioner may, at any time, request a Council to review any barristers rule, solicitors rule or joint rule made by it.
(2) If a Council is requested to review a rule under this section, the Council must furnish a report on the review to the Commissioner within 28 days after the request or within such further period as is agreed on by the Commissioner and the Council.
(3) After receiving a report under this section, the Commissioner must give a report to the Attorney General about the request for the review and may include in the report submissions about the rule and a recommendation that the rule be declared inoperative.
(4) Any such report by the Commissioner must include a copy of the report on the review of the rule concerned provided by the relevant Council.
(5) The Attorney General may make public any report by the Commissioner under this section (including, if the Attorney General thinks fit, a copy of the relevant review).