AustLII Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 171

Letterhead and other identifying documents

(1)  An Australian-registered foreign lawyer must indicate, in each public document distributed by the lawyer in connection with the lawyer's practice of foreign law, the fact that the lawyer is an Australian-registered foreign lawyer and is restricted to the practice of foreign law.
(2)  Subsection (1) is satisfied if the lawyer includes in the public document the words –
(a) "registered foreign lawyer" or "registered foreign practitioner"; and
(b) "entitled to practise foreign law only".
(3)  An Australian-registered foreign lawyer may (but need not) include any or all of the following in any public document:
(a) an indication of all foreign countries in which the lawyer is registered to engage in legal practice;
(b) a description of himself or herself, and any law practice with which the lawyer is affiliated or associated, in any of the ways designated in section 170 .
(4)  In this section –
public document includes any business letter, statement of account, invoice, business card, and promotional and advertising material.



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