Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 696

696 Rules

(1) The law society may make rules (the
"society rules" ) for the following purposes—

(a) to define, and carry out, the objects of the law society;

(b) for the regulation and good government of the law society and its members;

(c) to provide for the way of electing or appointing the presidential members and other council members, and filling a vacancy of a council member, other than an appointed member or person appointed because the person is the immediate past president;

(d) to regulate council meetings and the conduct of business at the meetings;

(e) the custody and use of the law society’s common seal;

(f) the admission, re-admission, resignation, and expulsion of members of the law society;

(g) to fix fees, levies and subscriptions in relation to membership of the law society and to recover unpaid fees, levies and subscriptions;

(h) to waive compliance with the society rules, in whole or in part, absolutely or conditionally, in relation to a member or a class of members.

(2) Society rules must be made by resolution of the council.