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LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2017
- Made under the Legal Profession Act 2007
- As at 1 March 2024
- Reg 174 of 2017
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1.1 - PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Commencement
2A. Rounding of amounts expressed as numbers of fee units
PART 1.2 - INTERPRETATION
3. Definitions
4. Prescribed home jurisdiction criteria—Act, s 8
5. Prescribed agencies—Act, s 12
6. Prescribed community legal service—Act, sch 2, definition community legal service
PART 2.2 - RESERVATION OF LEGAL WORK
7. Prescribed legal practice—Act, s 24
PART 2.3 - ADMISSION OF LOCAL LAWYERS
8. Prescribed fees—Act, s 42
PART 2.4 - LEGAL PRACTICE BY AUSTRALIAN LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
9. Completion of periods of supervised legal practice
10. Prescribed particulars—Act, s 81
PART 2.7 - INCORPORATED LEGAL PRACTICES AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PARTNERSHIPS
11. Corporations prescribed as corporations that are not incorporated legal practices—Act, s 111
12. Prohibition on conduct of managed investment scheme by incorporated legal practice
13. Prescribed period for notice of termination of provision of legal services—Act, s 116
14. Disqualifications and prohibitions
PART 2.8 - LEGAL PRACTICE BY FOREIGN LAWYERS
15. Prescribed legal services—Act, s 167
16. Application of particular provisions to Australian-registered foreign lawyers—Act, s 174
17. Application of pt 3.6 of the Act to particular locally registered foreign lawyers—Act, s 176
18. Locally registered foreign lawyers not covered by fidelity fund
19. Fees for application for grant or renewal of registration as foreign lawyer—Act, s 181
20. Written statement for show cause event—Act, s 192
21. Addressee for notification of offence—Act, s 204
22. Prescribed particulars—Act, s 210
23. Refund of fees—Act, s 215
PART 3.2 - MANNER OF LEGAL PRACTICE
24. Government legal officers and application of legal profession rules
25. Prohibition on law practice and its associates acting as real estate agents for related transactions
26. Restriction on setting fees under administration rules
PART 3.3 - TRUST MONEY AND TRUST ACCOUNTS
Division 1 - Trust money and trust accounts
27. Definitions for division
28. Application of division
29. Keeping and printing trust records
30. Chronological record of information to be made
31. Requirements regarding computer accounting systems
32. Backups
33. Establishment of general trust account—Act, s 247
34. Receipting of trust money
35. Deposit records for trust money
36. Period for keeping direction for non-deposit of trust money in general trust account—Act, s 248
37. Payment by cheque
38. Payment by electronic funds transfer
39. Recording transactions in trust account cash books
40. Trust account receipts cash book
41. Trust account payments cash book
42. Recording transactions in trust ledger accounts
43. Journal transfers
44. Reconciliation of trust records
45. Trust ledger account in name of law practice or legal practitioner associate
46. Notification requirements regarding general trust accounts
47. Way in which controlled money accounts must be kept—Act, s 251
48. Receipt of controlled money
49. Period for keeping direction for deposit of controlled money—Act, s 251
50. Withdrawal of controlled money
51. Register of controlled money
52. Way in which transit money must be accounted for—Act, s 253
53. Trust account statements
54. Trust account statements for sophisticated clients
55. Register of investments
56. Accounting for trust money subject to specific powers—Act, s 254
57. Register of powers and estates in relation to trust money
58. Procedures and requirements for withdrawing trust money for legal costs—Act, s 258
59. Period for keeping trust records—Act, s 261
60. Keeping other records and information
61. Statements regarding receipt or holding of trust money
62. Exemption from requirement on law practice to have its trust records externally examined—Act, s 268
63. Law practice closing down, closing office or ceasing to receive or hold trust money
64. Prescribed professional accounting associations—Act, s 266
65. Prescribed qualifications and experience for appointment as external examiner—Act, s 267
66. Way in which external examination must be carried out—Act, s 273
67. Chief executive ensuring compliance relating to trust accounts
Division 2 - Matters relating to trust money and trust accounts
68. Exemptions relating to stated requirement of pt 3.3—Act, s 298
PART 3.4 - COSTS DISCLOSURE AND ASSESSMENT
69. When does a matter have a substantial connection with this jurisdiction
70. Exceptions to requirement for disclosure—Act, s 311
71. Additional disclosure—settlement of litigious matters—Act, s 312
72. Rate of interest on unpaid legal costs—Act, s 321
PART 3.5 - PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
73. Requirements for professional indemnity insurance—Act, s 353
PART 3.6 - FIDELITY COVER
74. Application of pt 3.6 of the Act to community legal services—Act, s 357
74A. Maximum payment from fidelity fund for educational and other programs—Act, s 364
75. Prescribed classes of local legal practitioners—Act, s 368
75A. Interest rate for amount payable for fidelity fund claim—Act, s 384
76. Capped amount—Act, s 396
77. Fidelity protocols—Act, s 402
78. Notice of interstate legal practitioner becoming authorised to withdraw from local trust account—Act, s 412
78A. Interest rate for particular claims—Act, s 787
PART 4.6 - INVESTIGATIONS
79. Covering cost of assessment under s 443 or 444 of the Act—Act, s 445
PART 4.9 - PROCEEDINGS IN DISCIPLINARY BODY
Division 1 - Preliminary matters for discipline application
80. How to make a discipline application
81. Commissioner to serve copy of discipline application
82. Respondent to file and serve notice of address for service
Division 2 - Other matters for discipline application
83. Substituted service
84. Address for service
85. Directions hearing
86. Setting down for hearing
87. List of documents
88. Affidavits
Division 3 - General
89. Extending and shortening time
90. Effect of noncompliance with part
PART 4.11 - PUBLICISING DISCIPLINARY ACTION
91. Particulars for discipline register—Act, s 472
PART 5.1 - PRELIMINARY (FOR CHAPTER 5 OF THE ACT—EXTERNAL INTERVENTION)
92. Application of ch 5 of the Act to interstate legal practitioners—Act, s 495
PART 6A - EXAMINATIONS UNDER CHAPTER 6A OF THE ACT
92A. Allowances and expenses for person required to attend for examination—Act, s 581F
PART 9 - REPEAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Division 1 - Repeal
93. Repeal
Division 2 - Transitional provision for SL No. 174 of 2017
94. Obligation to do thing indefinitely or within or for stated period
Division 3 - Transitional provision for Legal Profession (Community Legal Service Practitioners) Amendment Regulation 2018
95. Payment for financial year ending on 30 June 2018
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
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