Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts73. Statutory condition regarding practice - general
(1) It is a statutory condition of a local practising certificate that the holder must engage in supervised legal practice only until the holder has completed:
(a) if the holder completed practical legal training principally under the supervision of an Australian lawyer (whether involving articles of clerkship, graduate clerk or otherwise) to qualify for admission to the legal profession in this or another jurisdiction - a period or periods equivalent to 18 months supervised legal practice after the day the holder's first practising certificate was granted; or
(b) if the holder completed other practical legal training to qualify for admission to the legal profession in this or another jurisdiction - a period or periods equivalent to 2 years supervised legal practice after the day the holder's first practising certificate was granted.
(2) For subsection (1), the period or periods must be worked out under the regulations.
(3) Subsection (1) has effect subject to any other conditions that relate to engaging in supervised legal practice after a period or periods referred to in that subsection.
(4) The Law Society may exempt a person or class of persons from the requirement for supervised legal practice under subsection (1) or may reduce a period referred to in that subsection for a person or class of persons, if satisfied the person or persons do not need to be supervised or need to be supervised only for a shorter period, having regard to:
(a) the length and nature of any legal practice previously engaged in by the person or persons; and
(b) the length and nature of any legal practice engaged in by the supervisors (if any) who previously supervised the legal practice engaged in by the person or persons.
(5) An exemption under subsection (4) may be given unconditionally or subject to the conditions the Society considers appropriate.
(6) In this section:
engage in supervised legal practice includes:
(a) employment as a government lawyer as defined in section 90(5); and
(b) employment by a complying community legal centre under the supervision of a supervising legal practitioner.