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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 460

Compliance with disciplinary recommendations or orders made under corresponding laws

    (1)     Entities with 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 functions 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 an Australian legal practitioner, or the employment of a person by a solicitor, in the ACT.

    (2)     If a corresponding disciplinary body makes a recommendation or order that a person's name be removed from the roll of lawyers under this Act, the Supreme Court must order the removal of the name from the local roll.

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



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