Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 79

79 Protocols

(1) A regulatory authority may enter into arrangements (
"jurisdiction protocols" ) with regulatory authorities of other jurisdictions about deciding—

(a) the jurisdiction in which an Australian lawyer practises law principally or can reasonably expect to practise law principally; or

(b) the circumstances in which an arrangement under which an Australian legal practitioner practises in a jurisdiction—

(i) may be regarded as being of a temporary nature; or

(ii) ceases to be of a temporary nature; or

(c) the circumstances in which an Australian legal practitioner may reasonably expect to practise law principally in a jurisdiction during the currency of the practitioner’s practising certificate.

(2) For this Act, and to the extent that jurisdiction protocols are relevant, a matter mentioned in subsection (1) (a) , (b) or (c) must be decided under the jurisdiction protocols.

(3) The regulatory authority may enter into an arrangement that amends, revokes or replaces a jurisdiction protocol.

(4) A jurisdiction protocol, or an amendment, revocation or replacement of a jurisdiction protocol, has effect in this jurisdiction only to the extent it is approved under a regulation.