(1) An interstate legal practitioner must not engage in unsupervised legal practice in this jurisdiction unless:
(a) if the interstate legal practitioner completed practical legal training principally under the supervision of an Australian lawyer (whether involving articles of clerkship, graduate clerk or otherwise) to qualify for admission to the legal profession in this or another jurisdiction – the interstate legal practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to 18 months supervised legal practice after the day the practitioner's first practising certificate was granted; or
(b) if the interstate legal practitioner completed other practical legal training to qualify for admission to the legal profession in this or another jurisdiction – the interstate legal practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to 2 years supervised legal practice after the day the practitioner's first practising certificate was granted.
Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units.
(2) For subsection (1):
(a) the period or periods must be worked out under the regulations; and
(b) a period of supervised legal practice in the practitioner's home jurisdiction must be worked out under the corresponding law for that jurisdiction.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply if the practitioner is exempt from the requirement for supervised legal practice in the practitioner's home jurisdiction.
(4) Subsection (1) applies only to the extent of a shorter period if the required period of supervised legal practice has been reduced for the practitioner in the practitioner's home jurisdiction.