Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 478

478 Protocols

(1) The commissioner may enter into arrangements (
"cross-border protocols" ) with corresponding authorities about investigating and dealing with conduct that appears to have happened in more than 1 jurisdiction.

(2) In particular, a cross-border protocol may provide for—

(a) principles to help in deciding where conduct happens, either generally or in stated classes of cases; and

(b) giving and receiving consent for conduct happening in a jurisdiction to be dealt with under a law of another jurisdiction; and

(c) procedures to be adopted for requesting and conducting the investigation of an aspect of complaints or investigation matters under this part.