New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM GENERAL RULES 2015 - REG 10

10 Exemption from prohibition on engaging in legal practice

(1) The following persons are declared to be exempt from the operation of section 10(1) of the Uniform Law--

(a) a person carrying out conveyancing work in accordance with a licence in force under relevant jurisdictional legislation,

(b) a land agent performing work in respect of instruments the person is entitled to draw, fill up or prepare and to charge for, under a law of a jurisdiction or of the Commonwealth,

(c) an officer or employee of a government authority drawing instruments in the course of the person's duty, otherwise than as parliamentary counsel, legislative counsel or legislative drafter (however described),

(d) an officer or employee of a government authority undertaking appearance work in courts or tribunals under the authority of a law of a jurisdiction or of the Commonwealth,

(e) any of the following--

(i) a public trustee (however named) of a jurisdiction,

(ii) a company that performs the functions of a public trustee of a jurisdiction,

(iii) a company performing trustee work on behalf of the government of a jurisdiction or the Commonwealth,

(iv) an officer, employee or member of staff of an entity referred to in subparagraph (i)-(iii),

to the extent that the person is performing work in the course of preparing a will or providing a related service or in the course of carrying out any other work involving or in connection with the administration of trusts, the estates of living or deceased persons or the affairs of living persons,

(f) an industrial organisation providing legal services, but only to the extent that--

(i) the legal services concerned are provided to members of the organisation, and

(ii) the legal services are not provided for fee, gain or reward to the organisation (other than standard membership fees), and

(iii) the legal services are provided by Australian legal practitioners, and

(iv) if any of the legal services are provided by an Australian legal practitioner whose Australian practising certificate is subject to a condition requiring the holder to engage in supervised legal practice only--those legal services are provided under the supervision of an Australian legal practitioner who is authorised to supervise legal practice by others.

(2) In subrule (1)(f),
"industrial organisation" means an organisation (however described) that is registered or otherwise recognised under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.