Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 114

114 Notice of intention to start providing legal services

(1) Before a corporation starts to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction, the corporation must give the law society notice, in the law society approved form, of its intention to do so.

(2) A corporation must not engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction if it has not given a notice under subsection (1) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for a person guilty under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of an offence—300 penalty units; or

(b) for a corporation—1,500 penalty units.

(3) A corporation that starts to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction without giving a notice under subsection (1) is in default of this section until it gives the law society notice, in the law society approved form, of the failure to comply with that subsection and the fact that it has started to engage in legal practice.

(4) The giving of a notice under subsection (3) does not affect a liability under subsection (1) or (2) .

(5) A corporation is not entitled to recover any amount for anything the corporation did in contravention of subsection (2) .

(6) A person may recover from a corporation, as a debt due to the person, any amount the person paid to or at the direction of the corporation for anything the corporation did in contravention of subsection (2) .

(7) This section does not apply to a corporation mentioned in section 111 (2) or (3) .