Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Legal Profession Act 2004 - SECT 2.7.4.

2.7.4. Nature of incorporated legal practice

(1) An incorporated legal practice is a corporation that engages in legal
practice in this jurisdiction, whether or not it also provides services that
are not legal services.

(2) However, a corporation is not an incorporated legal practice if-

   (a)  the only legal services that the corporation provides are any or all
        of the following services-

   (i)  in-house legal services, namely, legal services provided to the
        corporation concerning a proceeding or transaction to which the
        corporation (or a related body corporate) is a party;

   (ii) services that are not legally required to be provided by an Australian
        legal practitioner and that are provided by an officer or an employee
        who is not an Australian legal practitioner; or

   (b)  this Part or the regulations so provide.

(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the application
(with or without specified modifications) of provisions of this Act to
corporations that are not incorporated legal practices because of the
operation of subsection (2).

(4) Nothing in this Part affects or applies to the provision by an
incorporated legal practice of legal services in one or more other
jurisdictions.