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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1981 - SECT 23B

23B—Limitations or conditions on practice under laws of participating States

        (1)         An interstate legal practitioner must, in practising the profession of the law in this State

            (a)         observe any limitations in relation to the practitioner's entitlement to practise the profession of the law that apply under the law of a State in which the practitioner is admitted as a legal practitioner; and

            (b)         comply with any condition in respect of his or her practice imposed by a regulatory authority in a participating State.

        (2)         A condition imposed on a person by a regulatory authority in this or any other participating State has no effect for the purposes of subsection (1) to the extent (if any) to which it is inconsistent with a more onerous condition imposed on the person by another regulatory authority.

        (3)         An interstate legal practitioner practising the profession of the law in this State must give written notice to the Supreme Court of any conditions or limitations imposed on the practitioner's interstate practising certificate

            (a)         in relation to conditions or limitations imposed before the practitioner commenced practising the profession of the law in this State—within 14 days of the practitioner commencing practising the profession of the law in this State; or

            (b)         in relation to conditions or limitations imposed after the practitioner commenced practising the profession of the law in this State—within 28 days of the imposition of the conditions or limitations.

        (4)         A contravention of or non-compliance with this section is professional misconduct.



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