New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2014 - SECT 45

45 Government lawyers

(1) The local regulations may make provision for or with respect to--

(a) exempting persons or classes of persons from the requirement to hold Australian practising certificates, either generally or for specified periods, in respect of their official functions as government lawyers, and

(b) without limitation, excluding or modifying the operation of specified provisions of, or made under, the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) (including provisions of Parts 2.2 and 3.3 of that Law) to the extent that any of those provisions would otherwise be applicable to any persons, or classes of persons, as government lawyers.

Note : See section 56 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) .

(2) Government lawyers (including Crown prosecutors, public defenders, parliamentary counsel or other statutory Crown law officers) may be granted an Australian practising certificate with a condition that the holder is authorised to engage in legal practice as or in the manner of a barrister only.