Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 42

    (1)     An application for grant or renewal of a practising certificate must be in a form (an approved form ) approved under section 587 by—

        (a)     for a barrister practising certificate—the bar council; or

        (b)     for an unrestricted practising certificate or restricted practising certificate—the law society council.

    (2)     To remove any doubt, an approved form may require the applicant to disclose matters that may affect the applicant's eligibility for the grant or renewal of a local practising certificate or the question whether the applicant is a fit or proper person to hold a local practising certificate.

    (3)     An approved form may indicate that particular kinds of matters previously disclosed in a particular way need not be disclosed for the purposes of the current application.

    (4)     Subsections (2) and (3) have effect despite the Legislation Act

, section 255 (6).