LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 130
Commissioner or law society may audit incorporated legal practice
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 130
Commissioner or law society may audit incorporated legal practice
130 Commissioner or law society may audit incorporated legal practice
(1) An ILP authority may conduct an audit of an incorporated legal practice
about—
(a) the compliance of the practice, and of its officers and
employees, with the requirements of—
(i) this part; or
(ii) a regulation,
the legal profession rules or the administration rules, so far as they apply
to incorporated legal practices; and
(b) the management of the provision of
legal services by the incorporated legal practice, including the supervision
of officers and employees providing the services.
(2) An audit may be
conducted whether or not a complaint has been made against a person in
relation to the provision of legal services by the incorporated legal
practice.
(3) A report of the audit—
(a) must be given to the incorporated
legal practice concerned; and
(b) may be given to another ILP authority; and
(c) may be provided by an ILP authority to a corresponding authority; and
(d)
may be taken into account for—
(i) a discipline application involving legal
practitioner directors or other persons; or
(ii) the grant, renewal,
amendment, suspension or cancellation of a practising certificate.