Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

LEGAL PROFESSION RULES 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 -- Preliminary matters  

   1.      Citation  
   2.      Commencement  
   3A.     Supervised legal practice  

   PART 2 -- Australian legal practitioners  

           Division 1 -- Grant or renewal of local practising certificates  

   3.      Application for grant or renewal of local practising certificate (s. 43(1))  
   4.      Fee for application for grant of local practising certificate (s. 43(1)(b))  
   5.      Timing of application for renewal of local practising certificate (s. 44)  
   6.      Notification of change of details  
   7A.     Contributions to Guarantee Fund (s. 337)  

           Division 2 -- Condition on local practising certificates: continuing professional development  

   7.      Terms used  
   8.      Condition on practising certificates: practitioner must complete professional development  
   9.      Earning CPD points  
   10.     Competency area requirements  
   11.     Interactive and publishing point requirements  
   12.     CPD points for an activity  
   13.     Points for repeated activities  
   14.     Approval of QA providers  
   15.     Approval of professional development activities  
   16.     Approvals generally  
   17.     Variations  
   18.     Transitional arrangements  

           Division 3 -- Other conditions on local practising certificates  

   19.     Restricted legal practice (s. 50)  

           Division 4 -- Local legal practitioner with articled clerk  

   20.     Terms used  
   21.     Supervision of articled clerks  
   22.     Conduct of principal for articled clerk  

           Division 5 -- Interstate legal practitioners  

   23.     Notification requirements for interstate legal practitioners (s. 71)  
   24.     Restricted legal practice by interstate legal practitioner (s. 72)  

   PART 3 -- Foreign lawyers  

   25.     Fee for application for grant or renewal of registration (s. 168)  
   26.     Conditions regarding notification of offence (s. 191)  
   27.     Notification requirements for interstate-registered foreign lawyers (s. 196)  

   PART 4 -- Legal Practice Board  

           Division 1 -- Preliminary matters  

   28.     Term used: secretary  

           Division 2 -- Election of members of the Board  

   29.     Annual election date  
   30.     Returning officers  
   31.     Nomination of candidates  
   32.     Candidates elected when nominations equal vacancies  
   33.     Ballot papers  
   34.     Voting  
   35.     Commencement of term of office  
   36.     Results to be published in Gazette  
   37.     Non-receipt of ballot papers  

           Division 3 -- Board meetings  

   38.     Board meetings  
   39.     Holding meetings remotely  
   40.     Urgent meetings  
   41.     Resolution without meeting  
   42.     Rescission or amendment  
   43.     Minutes  

           Division 4 -- Committees  

   44.     Convenor and deputy convenor  
   45.     Committee meetings  
   46.     Application of applied provisions  

   PART 5 -- Law Library at Supreme Court  

   47.     Terms used  
   48.     People entitled to use the library  
   49.     Librarian may suspend or restrict entitlement to use library  
   50.     Board may suspend or restrict entitlement to use library  
   51.     Use of the library and books  
   52.     Borrowing books  
   53.     Removal of unauthorised people and retrieval of books  

   PART 6 -- General matters  

   54.     Documents given to or by the Board  
   55.     Board may excuse noncompliance  
   56.     Rules repealed  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Fees  
           Compilation table