LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 115
Prohibition on corporations or directors etc. representing that corporation is incorporated legal practice
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 115
Prohibition on corporations or directors etc. representing that corporation is incorporated legal practice
115 Prohibition on corporations or directors etc. representing that
corporation is incorporated legal practice
(1) A corporation must not, without a reasonable excuse, represent or
advertise that the corporation is an incorporated legal practice unless a
notice in relation to the corporation has been given under section 114.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—300 penalty units.
(2) A director,
officer, employee or agent of a corporation must not, without a reasonable
excuse, represent or advertise that the corporation is an incorporated legal
practice unless a notice in relation to the corporation has been given under
section 114.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 2 years
imprisonment.
(3) A reference in this section to representing or
advertising that a corporation is an incorporated legal practice includes—
(a) for the corporation—the corporation doing anything that states or
implies that the corporation is entitled to engage in legal practice; or
(b)
for a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation—the director,
officer, employee or agent of the corporation doing anything that states or
implies that the corporation is entitled to engage in legal practice.