Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) For section 2.4.18(1)(a) of the Legal Profession Act 2004 substitute —
"(a) if, to qualify for admission to the legal profession, the holder completed practical legal training—
(i) principally under the supervision of an Australian legal practitioner, whether involving articles of clerkship or otherwise; or
(ii) involving articles of clerkship principally under the supervision of a person other than an Australian legal practitioner in accordance with the admission rules—
a period or periods equivalent to 18 months' supervised legal practice, worked out under relevant regulations, after the day the holder's first practising certificate was granted; or".
(2) For section 2.4.18(3) of the Legal Profession Act 2004 substitute —
"(3) The Board may exempt a person or class of persons from the requirement for supervised legal practice under sub-section (1) or may reduce a period referred to in that sub-section for a person or class of persons, if satisfied that the person or persons do not need to be supervised or need to be supervised only for a shorter period, having regard to—
(a) the length and nature of any legal practice previously engaged in by the person or persons; and
(b) the length and nature of any legal practice engaged in by the supervisors (if any) who previously supervised the legal practice engaged in by the person or persons.
(4) An exemption under sub-section (3) may be given unconditionally or subject to any conditions that the Board thinks appropriate.
(5) This section does not apply to—
(a) the holder of a local practising certificate who is a barrister; or
(b) a person who held an Australian practising certificate at any time before 12 December 2005.
(6) Nothing in sub-section (5) prevents the Board or the Tribunal imposing a condition regarding supervised legal practice in relation to a person referred to in sub-section (5)(b).".