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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 No. 24 - SECT 161

161 Regulation

(1) A regulation may provide for the following--

(a) the legal services provided by incorporated legal practices or legal practitioner partners or employees of multi-disciplinary partnerships;
(b) other services provided by incorporated legal practices or legal practitioner partners or employees of multi-disciplinary partnerships in circumstances where a conflict of interest relating to the provision of legal services may arise.

(2) A regulation prevails over any inconsistent provision of the legal profession rules.

(3) A regulation may provide that a breach of a provision of a regulation is capable of constituting unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct--

(a) for an incorporated legal practice--by a legal practitioner director, or by the Australian legal practitioner responsible for the breach, or both; or
(b) for a multi-disciplinary partnership--by a legal practitioner partner of the multi-disciplinary partnership, or by the Australian legal practitioner responsible for the breach, or both.


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