Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this
section —
employing authority of a WA government lawyer
means —
(a) the
employing authority of the lawyer under the Public Sector
Management Act 1994 ; or
(b) if
the lawyer does not have an employing authority under that Act, the employing
authority of the lawyer specified in the regulations for the purposes of this
definition;
government agency means —
(a) a
body, whether corporate or unincorporate, or the holder of an office,
established under a law of this jurisdiction for a public purpose or to
exercise governmental functions; or
(b) a
person or body (or a class of persons or bodies) prescribed by the regulations
as being within this definition;
WA government lawyer means an Australian lawyer
employed in —
(a) the
State Solicitor’s Office; or
(b) the
Parliamentary Counsel’s Office; or
(c) the
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; or
(d) a
government agency prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
definition.
(2) A WA government
lawyer is engaged in government work when the lawyer is engaged in legal
practice in the course of the lawyer’s duties in relation to the entity
in which the lawyer is employed.
(3) A WA government
lawyer engaged in government work is taken to be a local legal practitioner
and an Australian legal practitioner.
(4) The regulations
may make provision for —
(a)
arrangements to be made by employing authorities of WA government lawyers for
the continuing professional development of those lawyers; and
(b) the
submission of those arrangements for approval by the Attorney General; and
(c) the
information to be given to the Board by an employing authority or former
employing authority of a WA government lawyer in relation to that lawyer; and
(d) the
manner and form in which the information is to be given.