Western Australian Numbered Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 (NO. 21 OF 2008) - SECT 463

463 .         Compliance with recommendations or orders made under corresponding laws

        (1)         Persons and bodies having relevant functions under this Act must —

            (a)         give effect to or enforce any recommendation or order of a corresponding disciplinary body or other corresponding authority made under a corresponding law in relation to powers exercisable under this Act; and

            (b)         give effect to or enforce any recommendation or order of a corresponding disciplinary body or other corresponding authority made under a corresponding law so far as the recommendation or order relates to the practice of law by the Australian legal practitioner concerned in this jurisdiction.

        (2)         If a corresponding disciplinary body makes a recommendation or order recommending that a person’s name be removed from the roll of lawyers under this Act, the Supreme Court (full bench) may order the removal of the name from the roll.

        (3)         If a corresponding disciplinary body makes an order that an Australian legal practitioner pay an amount (whether as a fine or otherwise), a copy of the order may be filed in the appropriate court and the order may be enforced as if it were an order of that court.

        (4)         In subsection (3) —

        “appropriate court” means a court having jurisdiction to enforce a debt of the same amount as the amount ordered to be paid.