New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 162

162 Appointment of external investigators

(1) The designated local regulatory authority may investigate, or may in writing appoint a suitably qualified person as an external investigator to investigate, the affairs or specified affairs of a law practice.

(2) The appointment may be made generally or for the law practice specified in the instrument of appointment, or in relation to a particular external investigation.

(3) The designated local regulatory authority may exercise the functions of an external investigator, and references in this Law to an external investigator appointed to examine a law practice's trust records include references to the designated local regulatory authority when exercising those functions.