Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person must not
provide or offer to provide, or receive or seek to receive, a fee for the
soliciting or inducing of a potential claimant to make a claim.
Penalty: $10 000.
(2) A person does not
commit an offence against subsection (1) if the fee is for a person who
is not a legal practitioner and is not acting for a legal practitioner, in the
ordinary course of business as an advertiser or publisher, advertising legal
services about claims.
(3) A person does not
commit an offence against subsection (1) if the fee is for professional
services provided by a person who is a legal practitioner or is acting for a
legal practitioner to the potential claimant in the process of making a claim.
(4) In this
section —
fee includes the following —
(a) a
bonus, commission, cash payment, deduction, discount, rebate, remission or
other valuable consideration;
(b)
employment, or an agreement to give employment, in any capacity.