Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 152

152 Disclosure obligations

(1) This section applies if a person engages a multi-disciplinary partnership to provide services that the person might reasonably assume to be legal services.

(2) Each legal practitioner partner of the multi-disciplinary partnership, and any employee of the partnership who is an Australian legal practitioner and who provides the services on behalf of the partnership, must ensure that a disclosure that complies with the requirements of this section and a regulation made for this section is made to the person about the services.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(3) The disclosure must be made by giving the person a written notice—

(a) setting out the services to be provided; and

(b) stating whether or not all the legal services will be provided by an Australian legal practitioner; and

(c) if some or all of the legal services to be provided will not be provided by an Australian legal practitioner—identifying those services and indicating the status or qualifications of the person or persons who will provide the legal services; and

(d) stating that this Act applies to the provision of legal services but not to the provision of the non-legal services.

(4) A regulation may provide for the following matters—

(a) the way in which a disclosure is to be made;

(b) additional matters required to be disclosed in connection with the provision of legal services or non-legal services by a multi-disciplinary partnership.

(5) Without limiting subsection (4) , the additional matters may include the kind of services provided by the multi-disciplinary partnership and whether those services are or are not covered by the provisions of this Act, including, for example, provisions about insurance.

(6) A disclosure under this section to a person about the provision of legal services may relate to the provision of legal services on 1 occasion, on more than 1 occasion or on an on-going basis.