New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2002 - REG 142

142 Mandatory continuing legal education-special requirement

(1) If the holder of a practising certificate is required to undertake continuing legal education, that continuing legal education must include a component relating to the management of the practice of law that deals predominantly with the following issues:

(a) the principles of equal employment opportunity,

(b) the law relating to discrimination and harassment,

(c) occupational health and safety law,

(d) employment law,

(e) the management of legal practice consistent with paragraphs (a)-(d).

(2) That component is to be undertaken at least once in every compliance period, or such shorter period as may be determined by the appropriate Council, and is to comprise at least one unit in the units of continuing legal education that the holder of the practising certificate is required to undertake.

(3) In this clause:
"continuing legal education" means continuing legal education that the holder of a practising certificate is required to undertake under the conditions attached to the certificate.
"compliance period" means:

(a) in relation to a person who is the holder of a practising certificate at 2 April 2004-the period starting on 2 April 2004 and ending on 31 March 2007, and each further period of 3 years ending on the third anniversary of the expiration of the previous period, or

(b) in relation to a person who becomes the holder of a practising certificate after 2 April 2004-the period starting on the date the person becomes the holder of a practising certificate and ending on 31 March in the year that is 3 years after the start of the period, and each further period of 3 years ending on the third anniversary of the expiration of the previous period.