LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SCHEDULE 2
This legislation has been repealed.
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 2 – The Legal Practitioners Admission Board
1 General procedure
The procedure for the calling of meetings of the Admission Board and for conduct of business at those meetings is, subject to this Act, to be as determined by the Board.
2 Quorum
The quorum for a meeting of the Admission Board is 5 members including the member presiding at the meeting.
3 Presiding and deputy presiding member of Admission Board
The Chief Justice of New South Wales may from time to time nominate one of the judicial members of the Admission Board to be the presiding member of the Board and another of the judicial members of the Board to be the deputy presiding member of the Board.
4 Presiding member
(1) The Chief Justice of New South Wales is to preside at a meeting of the Admission Board if electing to be present and electing to preside.
(2) Otherwise:(a) the presiding member, or(b) in the absence of the presiding member--the deputy presiding member, or(c) in the absence of both--a member elected by and from the members present and voting,is to preside at the meeting.
(3) The member presiding at a meeting of the Admission Board has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a second or casting vote.
5 Voting
A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Admission Board at which a quorum is present is the decision of the Board.
6 Minutes
The Admission Board is to cause full and accurate minutes to be kept of the proceedings of each meeting of the Board.
7 Reserve members
(1) For each member of the Admission Board, one or more reserve members may be nominated to act in the office of the member during the member's illness or absence.
(2) While so acting, a reserve member has and may exercise all the functions of the member and is taken to be a member of the Admission Board.
(3) For a member who is the Attorney General or a nominee of the Attorney General, the reserve member or members may be nominated by the Attorney General.
(4) For any other member, the reserve member or members are to be nominated by the person or body that nominated the member and must be qualified for nomination in the same way as the member.
(5) A person may be removed, by the nominating person or body, from any office for which the person was nominated under this clause.
(6) For the purposes of this clause, a vacancy in the office of a member of the Admission Board is taken to be an absence from office of the member.
8 Liability of members
(1) Subject to subclause (2), no matter or thing done by the Admission Board or any member of the Board is, if the matter or thing was done in good faith for the purpose of executing Part 2, to subject any such member personally to any action, liability, claim or demand.
(2) A judicial member of the Admission Board is, in the exercise of his or her functions under Part 2, to have the same protection and immunity as a Judge of the Supreme Court.
9 Seal
The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the custody and use of the seal of the Admission Board.