Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 161

161 Regulation

(1) A regulation may provide for the following—

(a) the legal services provided by incorporated legal practices or legal practitioner partners or employees of multi-disciplinary partnerships;

(b) other services provided by incorporated legal practices or legal practitioner partners or employees of multi-disciplinary partnerships in circumstances where a conflict of interest relating to the provision of legal services may arise.

(2) A regulation prevails over any inconsistent provision of the legal profession rules.

(3) A regulation may provide that a breach of a provision of a regulation is capable of constituting unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct—

(a) for an incorporated legal practice—by a legal practitioner director, or by the Australian legal practitioner responsible for the breach, or both; or

(b) for a multi-disciplinary partnership—by a legal practitioner partner of the multi-disciplinary partnership, or by the Australian legal practitioner responsible for the breach, or both.