New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION REGULATION 2015 - REG 21

21 Notice of exemptions by government and corporate lawyers

(1) This clause applies to a government or corporate lawyer (other than an exempt government lawyer) who, for the purposes of practising as such a lawyer, relies on an exemption under this Part from having to hold an Australian practising certificate.

(2) A government or corporate lawyer who is not an Australian lawyer when the exemption first commences to apply to the lawyer is to give notice to the Legal Profession Admission Board that he or she is relying on the exemption not later than 12 months after the exemption first applies to the lawyer.

(3) A government or corporate lawyer who is an Australian lawyer when the exemption first commences to apply to the lawyer is to give notice to the Bar Council or Law Society Council that he or she is relying on the exemption not later 6 months after the exemption first applies to the lawyer.

(4) The Legal Profession Admission Board, the Bar Council and Law Society Council may exchange information in a notice given to any of them under this clause.

(5) However, notice is not required to be given under this clause in any case where the period within which notice must be given ends after the expiry of the applicable exemption.

(6) A failure to give notice is not a ground for refusing or delaying the admission of a person to the Australian legal profession in this jurisdiction or the granting of an Australian practising certificate or for refusing or failing to take any action required before a person is so admitted or a certificate is granted.

(7) In this clause,
"exempt government lawyer" means a lawyer who was not an Australian lawyer on 1 July 2015 and was a government lawyer at any time within the period of 12 months before 1 July 2015.