Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A regulation may provide that a provision of this part, or any other provision of this Act relating to the fidelity fund, does not apply to multidisciplinary partnerships or applies to them with prescribed changes.
Note This Act is defined in the dictionary.
(2) For the application of a provision of this part, or any other provision of this Act relating to the fidelity fund, to a multidisciplinary partnership, a reference in the provision to a default of a law practice extends to a default of a multidisciplinary partnership or a partner or employee of a multidisciplinary partnership, whether or not anyone involved is an Australian legal practitioner, but only if it happens in relation to the provision of legal services.
(3) This section does not affect any obligation of an Australian legal practitioner who is a partner or employee of a multidisciplinary partnership to comply with the provisions of this part or any other provision of this Act relating to the fidelity fund.
(4) The amounts payable to the fidelity fund by the legal practitioner partners of a multidisciplinary partnership may be decided by reference to the total number of Australian legal practitioners employed by the partnership and other relevant matters.