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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 178

Letterhead and other identifying documents

    (1)     An Australian-registered foreign lawyer must indicate, in each public document distributed by the lawyer in connection with the lawyer's practice of foreign law, the fact that the lawyer is an Australian-registered foreign lawyer and is restricted to the practice of foreign law.

    (2)     Subsection (1) is satisfied if the lawyer includes in the public document the words:

        (a)     "registered foreign lawyer" or "registered foreign practitioner"; and

        (b)     "entitled to practise foreign law only".

    (3)     An Australian-registered foreign lawyer may (but need not) include any or all of the following on any public document:

        (a)     an indication of all foreign countries in which the lawyer is registered to engage in legal practice;

        (b)     a description of himself or herself, and any law practice with which the lawyer is affiliated or associated, in any of the ways designated in section 177.

    (4)     In this section:

"public document" includes any business letter, statement of account, invoice, business card and promotional and advertising material.



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