New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 470

470 Contraventions by partnerships or other unincorporated bodies

(1) This section applies in respect of--

(a) an offence against a provision of this Law or the Uniform Rules; or

(b) a contravention of a civil penalty provision--

that is expressed as imposing an obligation on a law practice, or other entity, that is a partnership or other unincorporated body.

(2) A reference (however expressed) in the provision to the law practice or other entity is to be read as reference to each principal of the law practice or other entity who--

(a) knowingly authorised or permitted the conduct constituting the offence or contravention; or

(b) was in, or ought reasonably to have been in, a position to influence the conduct of the law practice in relation to its contravention of the provision and failed to take reasonable steps to prevent the conduct.

(3) In this section--

"principal" of an entity that is not a law practice means a partner of, a member of the governing body of, or an office holder in, the entity.

Note: Section 6 contains a definition of principal of a law practice.