WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 75 Restriction on advertising work injury services

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 75

75 Restriction on advertising work injury services

A lawyer or agent must not publish or cause or permit to be published an advertisement that promotes the availability or use of a lawyer or agent to provide legal services or agent services if the advertisement includes any reference to or depiction of any of the following:

(a) work injury,

(b) any circumstance in which work injury might occur, or any activity, event or circumstance that suggests or could suggest the possibility of work injury, or any connection to or association with work injury or a cause of work injury,

(c) a "work injury service" (that is, any service provided by a lawyer or agent that relates to recovery of money, or any entitlement to recover money, in respect of work injury).

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units.

Note: A contravention of this clause can also be a contravention of Part 14 of the Legal Profession Regulation 2002 . A contravention of that Part by a lawyer constitutes professional misconduct.