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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 No. 24 - SECT 249

249 Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money

(1) A law practice must--

(a) hold trust money deposited in a general trust account of the practice exclusively for the person on whose behalf it is received; and
(b) disburse the trust money only under a direction given by the person.

Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) applies subject to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or as authorised by law.

(3) The law practice must account for the trust money in the way prescribed under a regulation.

Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.



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