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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 139

Actions of partner of multidisciplinary partnership who is not Australian legal practitioner

    (1)     Unless a provision of this Act expressly applies to a partner of a multidisciplinary partnership who is not an Australian legal practitioner, the partner does not contravene the provision only because of any of the following:

        (a)     the partner is a member of a partnership, if the business of the partnership includes the provision of legal services;

        (b)     the partner receives any fee, gain or reward for business of the partnership that is the business of an Australian legal practitioner;

        (c)     the partner holds out, advertises or represents themself as a member of a partnership, if the business of the partnership includes the provision of legal services;

        (d)     the partner shares with any other partner the receipts of business of the partnership that is the business of an Australian legal practitioner.

Note     This Act is defined in the dictionary.

    (2)     In this section:

"fee, gain or reward "means any form of, and any expectation of, a fee, gain or reward.



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