Western Australian Numbered Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 (NO. 21 OF 2008) - SECT 13

13 .         Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice when not entitled

        (1)         A person must not represent or advertise that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice unless the person is an Australian legal practitioner.

        Penalty: a fine of $20 000.

        (2)         A director, officer, employee or agent of a body corporate must not represent or advertise that the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice unless the body corporate is an incorporated legal practice.

        Penalty: a fine of $20 000.

        (3)         Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a representation or advertisement about being entitled to engage in legal practice of a kind referred to in section 12(3).

        (4)         A reference in this section to a person —

            (a)         representing or advertising that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice; or

            (b)         representing or advertising that a body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice,

                includes a reference to the person doing anything that states or implies that the person or the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice.