LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 785 Application of amended show cause event definition and additional obligation to give notice and statement

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 785

785 Application of amended show cause event definition and additional obligation to give notice and statement

(1) This section applies to a person who is a local legal practitioner, or a locally registered foreign lawyer, and who—

(a) on the commencement, is a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice that is an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act ; or

(b) at any time before the commencement, was a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice while it was an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act .

(2) It is declared that the matter mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) is a show cause event that has happened in relation to the person.

(3) The person must comply with the following for the show cause event—

(a) if the person is a local legal practitioner†”section 68;

(b) if the person is a locally registered foreign lawyer†”section 193.

(4) For subsection (3), the show cause event is taken to have happened on the commencement.