Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) An interstate legal practitioner must not engage in unsupervised legal practice in this jurisdiction unless--
(a) if the practitioner completed supervised legal training to qualify for admission to the legal profession--the practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to 18 months supervised legal practice, worked out under a regulation, after the date the practitioner's first practising certificate was granted; or
(b) if the interstate legal practitioner completed other practical legal training to qualify for admission to the legal profession in this or another jurisdiction--the practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to 2 years supervised legal practice, worked out under a regulation, after the date the practitioner's first practising certificate was granted.
(2) However, subsection (1)--
(a) does not apply if the interstate legal practitioner is exempt from the requirement for supervised legal practice in the practitioner's home jurisdiction; or
(b) applies to the interstate legal practitioner only to the extent of a shorter period if the required period of supervised legal practice has been reduced for the practitioner in the practitioner's home jurisdiction.
(3) In this section--
supervised legal training means practical legal training principally under the supervision of an Australian lawyer, whether involving articles of clerkship or otherwise.