Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 104

104 Peremptory cancellation of local practising certificate following removal of name from interstate roll

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a person’s name is removed from an interstate roll but he or she remains an Australian lawyer; and

(b) the person is the holder of a local practising certificate; and

(c) no order under section 107 (1) (b) is, at the time of that removal, in force in relation to the person’s local practising certificate.

(2) The relevant regulatory authority must cancel the local practising certificate.

(3) The relevant regulatory authority may, but need not, give the person notice of the date on which it proposes to cancel the local practising certificate.

(4) The relevant regulatory authority must give the person notice of the cancellation, unless notice of the date of the proposed cancellation was previously given.

(5) Nothing in this section prevents the former local lawyer from applying for a local practising certificate at a later time.