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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.