New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2014 - SECT 145

145 Compliance with determinations and orders

(1) Persons and bodies having relevant powers or functions under this Act or the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) must--

(a) give effect to any order of the Tribunal made under the provisions of this Part or Division 3 of Part 5.4 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) that requires official implementation in this jurisdiction, and

(b) enforce any order of the Tribunal made under any of those provisions that requires compliance by an Australian legal practitioner (except to the extent that the order relates to the practitioner's practice of law in another jurisdiction).

Note : Section 461 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) contains provisions relating to compliance in this jurisdiction with recommendations or orders made under corresponding laws.

(2) The applicant that made the disciplinary application concerned must ensure that persons and bodies having relevant powers or functions under a corresponding law of another jurisdiction are notified of the making and contents of--

(a) any order of the Tribunal made under the provisions of this Part or Division 3 of Part 5.4 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) that requires official implementation in the other jurisdiction, and

(b) any order of the Tribunal made under any of those provisions that requires compliance by an Australian legal practitioner (except to the extent that the order relates to the practitioner's practice of law in another jurisdiction).

(3) If the Tribunal makes an order that an Australian legal practitioner pay a fine, a copy of the order may be filed in the registry of a court having jurisdiction to give judgment for a debt of the same amount as the amount of the fine and the order may be enforced as if it were an order of the court.

(4) Any fine imposed by the Tribunal must be paid in the manner and within the period specified by the Tribunal and is to be paid to the Public Purpose Fund.