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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 75

Special provisions about interstate legal practitioner engaging in unsupervised legal practice in ACT

    (1)     An interstate legal practitioner must not engage in unsupervised legal practice as a solicitor in the ACT unless—

        (a)     if the practitioner completed practical legal training principally under the supervision of an Australian lawyer, whether involving articles of clerkship or otherwise, to qualify for admission to the legal profession in the ACT or another jurisdiction—the practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to 18 months supervised legal practice, worked out under the regulations, after the day the practitioner's first practising certificate was granted; or

        (b)     if the practitioner completed other practical legal training to qualify for admission to the legal profession in the ACT or another jurisdiction—the practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to 2 years supervised legal practice, worked out under the regulations, after the day the practitioner's first practising certificate was granted.

    (2)     Subsection (1)—

        (a)     does not apply if the interstate legal practitioner is exempt from the requirement for supervised legal practice in the practitioner's home jurisdiction; or

        (b)     applies only to the extent of a shorter period if the required period of supervised legal practice has been reduced for the interstate legal practitioner in the practitioner's home jurisdiction.



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