Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Legal Profession Act 2004 - SECT 2.2.3.

Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice when not entitled

2.2.3. Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in
legal practice when not entitled



(1) A person must not represent or advertise that the person is entitled to
engage in legal practice unless the person is an Australian legal
practitioner.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

(2) A director, officer, employee or agent of a body corporate must not
represent or advertise that the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal
practice unless the body corporate is an incorporated legal practice.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a representation or advertisement
about being entitled to engage in legal practice of a kind referred to in
section 2.2.2(2).









(4) A reference in this section to a person-

   (a)  representing or advertising that the person is entitled to engage in
        legal practice; or

   (b)  representing or advertising that a body corporate is entitled to
        engage in legal practice-

includes a reference to the person doing anything that states or implies that
the person or the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice.