Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current ActsIn this part:
"Australia" includes the external territories.
"Australian law" means law of the Commonwealth or of a jurisdiction.
"foreign law" means law of a foreign country.
"foreign law practice" means a partnership or corporate entity that is entitled to engage in legal practice in a foreign country.
"foreign licensing body" means an entity in a foreign country having the function, given by the law of the foreign country, of registering people to engage in legal practice in the foreign country.
"local registration certificate" means a registration certificate given under this part.
"overseas-registered foreign lawyer" means an individual who is properly registered to engage in legal practice in a foreign country by the foreign licensing body for the country.
"practise foreign law" means doing work, or transacting business, in the ACT concerning foreign law, being work or business of a kind that, if it concerned a territory law, would ordinarily be done or transacted by an Australian legal practitioner.
"registered", if used in relation to a foreign country, means having all necessary licences, approvals, admissions, certificates or other forms of authorisation (including practising certificates) required under legislation for engaging in legal practice in the country.