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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 19

Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice when not entitled

    (1)     A person who is not an Australian legal practitioner must not represent or advertise that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice.

Maximum penalty:     500 penalty units.

    (2)     A person is guilty of an offence if:

        (a)     the person is a director, officer, employee or agent of a body corporate; and

        (b)     the person represents or advertises that the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice; and

        (c)     the body corporate is not an incorporated legal practice.

Maximum penalty:     500 penalty units.

    (3)     Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a representation or advertisement about being entitled to engage in legal practice of a kind referred to in section 18(2).

    (4)     A reference in this section to a person representing or advertising that the person or a body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice includes a reference to the person doing anything that specifies or implies the person or body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice.



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