Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person must not
provide or offer to provide, or receive or seek to receive, a fee for the
soliciting or inducing of a potential claimant to make a claim.
Penalty: $10 000.
(2) A person does not
commit an offence against subsection (1) if the fee is for a person who is not
a lawyer and is not acting for a lawyer, in the ordinary course of business as
an advertiser or publisher, advertising legal services about claims.
(3) A person does not
commit an offence against subsection (1) if the fee is for professional
services provided by a person who is a lawyer or is acting for a lawyer to the
potential claimant in the process of making a claim.
(4) In this section
—
fee includes the following —
(a) a
bonus, commission, cash payment, deduction, discount, rebate, remission or
other valuable consideration;
(b)
employment, or an agreement to give employment, in any capacity.
[Section 20 amended: No. 9 of 2022 s. 341.]