Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 115

115 Prohibition on corporations or directors etc. representing that corporation is incorporated legal practice

(1) A corporation must not, without a reasonable excuse, represent or advertise that the corporation is an incorporated legal practice unless a notice in relation to the corporation has been given under section 114 .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units.

(2) A director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation must not, without a reasonable excuse, represent or advertise that the corporation is an incorporated legal practice unless a notice in relation to the corporation has been given under section 114 .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(3) A reference in this section to representing or advertising that a corporation is an incorporated legal practice includes—

(a) for the corporation—the corporation doing anything that states or implies that the corporation is entitled to engage in legal practice; or

(b) for a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation—the director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation doing anything that states or implies that the corporation is entitled to engage in legal practice.