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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 No. 24 - 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.

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.

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.


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