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"Australia" includes the external Territories;
"Australian law" means law of the Commonwealth or of a jurisdiction;
"commercial legal presence" means an interest in a law practice practising foreign law;
"foreign law" means law of a foreign country;
"foreign law practice" means a partnership or corporate entity that is entitled to engage in legal practice in a foreign country;
"foreign registration authority" means an entity in a foreign country having the function, conferred by the law of the foreign country, of registering persons to engage in legal practice in the foreign country;
"local registration certificate" means a registration certificate given or issued under this Part;
"overseas-registered foreign lawyer" means a natural person who is properly registered to engage in legal practice in a foreign country by the foreign registration authority for the country;
"practise foreign law" means doing work, or transacting business, in this jurisdiction concerning foreign law, being work or business of a kind that, if it concerned the law of this jurisdiction, would ordinarily be done or transacted by an Australian legal practitioner;
"registered" , when used in connection with a foreign country, means having all necessary licences, approvals, admissions, certificates or other forms of authorisation (including practising certificates) required by or under legislation for engaging in legal practice in that country.
Note: The terms "Australian-registered foreign lawyer", "foreign country", "interstate-registered foreign lawyer" and "locally registered foreign lawyer" are defined in section 1.2.1.