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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1981 - SECT 95

95—Application of certain revenues

        (1)         Subject to subsection (1aa), the Treasurer must in each year pay to the Society, from the money paid by way of practising certificate fees, fees paid by corporations under Schedule 1 clauses 4(1) and 5(2) and the fees paid by interstate practitioners on giving notice of the establishment of an office in this State

            (a)         an amount approved by the Attorney-General towards the Society's costs in exercising any powers or functions delegated to the Society under this Act; and

            (b)         after deduction of the amount described in paragraph (a)—

                  (i)         a prescribed proportion of the balance for the purpose of maintaining and improving the library of the Society;

                  (ii)         a prescribed proportion of the balance to be credited by the Society to the Fidelity Fund.

        (1aa)         If the Society collects practising certificate fees pursuant to an assignment of functions by the Supreme Court, the Society may retain a proportion of those fees approved by the Attorney-General for the purposes specified in subsection (1).

        (1a)         The revenue raised from practising certificate levies will be applied for the purpose of maintaining and improving the Supreme Court library.

        (2)         The Treasurer may, on the recommendation of the Attorney-General, make payments towards—

            (a)         meeting any expenses incurred by LPEAC in exercising its functions and powers under this Act; and

            (b)         defraying the costs of administering Part 6.

        (3)         This section is, without further appropriation, sufficient authority for the payment of the money to which it relates from the Consolidated Account.



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