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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 - SECT 39

39 .         Duration of local practising certificate

        (1)         A local practising certificate granted under this Act is in force from the date specified in it until the end of the financial year in which it is granted, unless —

            (a)         the certificate is sooner suspended or cancelled; or

            (b)         an earlier date is specified in the local practising certificate as the date on which it ceases to be in force.

        (2)         A local practising certificate renewed under this Act is in force until the end of the financial year following its previous period of currency, unless —

            (a)         the certificate is sooner suspended or cancelled; or

            (b)         an earlier date is specified in the local practising certificate as the date on which it ceases to be in force.

        (3)         If an application accepted by the Board for the renewal of a local practising certificate that ceases to be in force at the end of a financial year has not been finally determined by the following 1 July, the certificate —

            (a)         continues in force on and from that 1 July until the application has been finally determined or the holder withdraws the application for renewal, unless the certificate is sooner cancelled or renewed; and

            (b)         if renewed, is to be taken to have been renewed on and from that 1 July.

        (4)         For the purposes of subsection (3), an application is finally determined —

            (a)         by the renewal of the certificate; or

            (b)         by the exhaustion of all rights of review in relation to a decision to refuse to renew the certificate.



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