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TASMANIA
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LEGAL PROFESSION AMENDMENT BILL 2008
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Principal Act
4. Schedule 9 amended (Savings and transitional provisions)
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LEGAL PROFESSION AMENDMENT BILL 2008
(Brought in by the Minister for Justice, the Honourable
Larissa Tahireh Giddings)
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Legal Profession Act 2007
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Legal Profession
Amendment Act 2008.
2. Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
3. Principal Act
In this Act, the Legal Profession Act 2007* is
referred to as the Principal Act.
*No. 24 of 2007
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Legal Profession Amendment Act 2008
Act No. of
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4. Schedule 9 amended (Savings and transitional
provisions)
Clause 6 of Schedule 9 to the Principal Act is
amended by omitting subclauses (1) and (2) and
substituting the following subclauses:
(1) A practising certificate in force under the
old Act immediately before the
commencement of Part 2.3 of this Act
(a) is, on that commencement, taken
to be in force under this Act; and
(b) subject to the payment of the
prescribed fee when and as duly
demanded by the Law Society
after that commencement,
continues in force until midnight
of 30 June immediately following
that commencement.
(2) For the purposes of subclause (1), the
prescribed fee is one half of the fee that
would have been payable for the issue of
the practising certificate had the old Act
not been repealed.
4 Government Printer, Tasmania