New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 213

213 Community legal services

(1) A community legal service that is a corporation must not engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction unless--

(a) the community legal service holds an approved insurance policy for this jurisdiction; and

(b) the policy covers the community legal service itself and each Australian legal practitioner who engages in legal practice for or on behalf of the community legal service in this jurisdiction; and

(c) the policy covers that legal practice.

Civil penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A community legal service that is not a corporation must not engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction unless--

(a) each Australian legal practitioner who engages in legal practice for or on behalf of the community legal service holds or is covered by an approved insurance policy for this jurisdiction; and

(b) the policy covers that legal practice.

Civil penalty: 100 penalty units.