Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) An incorporated legal practice is a corporation that engages in legal practice in the ACT, whether or not it also provides services that are not legal services.
(2) However, a corporation is not an incorporated legal practice if—
(a) the corporation does not receive any fee, gain or reward for the legal services it provides; or
(b) the only legal services that the corporation provides are any or all of the following services:
(i) in-house legal services, namely, legal services provided to the corporation in relation to a proceeding or transaction to which the corporation (or a related body corporate) is a party;
(ii) services that are not legally required to be provided by an Australian legal practitioner and that are provided by an officer or employee who is not an Australian legal practitioner; or
(c) the corporation is a complying community legal centre; or
(d) the corporation is a trustee company under the Trustee Companies Act 1947
; or
(e) the corporation is the public trustee and guardian; or
(f) this part or a regulation provides that the corporation is not an incorporated legal practice.
(3) A regulation may make provision in relation to the application (with or without prescribed changes) of provisions of this Act to corporations that are not incorporated legal practices because of the operation of subsection (2).
(4) This part does not affect or apply to the provision by an incorporated legal practice of legal services in 1 or more other jurisdictions.
(5) In this section:
"fee, gain or reward "means any form of, and any expectation of, a fee, gain or reward.