LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 116
Notice of termination of provision of legal services
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 116
Notice of termination of provision of legal services
116 Notice of termination of provision of legal services
(1) A corporation must, within the period prescribed under a regulation after
it stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction as an incorporated
legal practice, give the law society notice, in the law society approved form,
of that fact.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—
(a) for a person guilty under
the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of an offence—20 penalty units; or
(b) for
a corporation—100 penalty units.
(2) A regulation may make provision
about circumstances that may be taken into account when deciding whether and
when a corporation stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction.
(3)
Circumstances prescribed under a regulation are examples, and do not limit,
whether and when a corporation stops engaging in legal practice in this
jurisdiction.
