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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2022 - SECT 233

233 .         Board may appoint person to investigate contravention of Act or Uniform Law

        (1)         This section applies if the Board suspects on reasonable grounds that a person has —

            (a)         committed an offence under this Act; or

            (b)         committed an offence against the Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) or contravened a civil penalty provision, other than an offence or civil penalty provision in Part 4.2 of the Law.

        (2)         The Board may appoint a person to investigate the suspected commission of the offence or contravention of the penalty provision.

        Note for this subsection:

                See the Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) section 469.

        (3)         The Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) Chapter 7 applies in relation to the investigation carried out under this section as if a reference in Chapter 7 to —

            (a)         a trust records investigation were a reference to the investigation carried out under this section; and

            (b)         an investigator were a reference to a person appointed under subsection (2).

        (4)         The Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) sections 462, 465 and 467 apply to a person appointed under subsection (2) as if they were a relevant person for the purposes of those sections of the Law.



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