Western Australian Numbered Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 (NO. 21 OF 2008) - SECT 181

181 .         Refusal, amendment, suspension or cancellation of local registration — failure to show cause

        (1)         The Board may refuse to grant or renew, or may amend, suspend or cancel, local registration if the applicant for registration or the locally registered foreign lawyer —

            (a)         is required under section 179 or  180 to provide a written statement relating to a matter and has failed to provide a written statement in accordance with that requirement; or

            (b)         has provided a written statement in accordance with section 179 or  180, but the Board does not consider that the applicant or foreign lawyer has shown in the statement that, despite the show cause event concerned, he or she is a fit and proper person to be a locally registered foreign lawyer.

        (2)         For the purposes of this section only, a written statement accepted by the Board under section 180(3) is taken to have been provided in accordance with section 180.

        (3)         The Board must give the applicant or foreign lawyer an information notice about the decision to refuse to grant or renew, or to suspend or cancel, the registration.