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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 182
Requirements regarding applications for grant or renewal of registration
(1) An application for the grant of registration must state the
applicants educational and professional qualifications.
(2) An application for the grant or renewal of registration
must
(a) state that the applicant is registered to engage in legal practice by one
or more specified foreign registration authorities in one or more foreign
countries; and
(b) state that the applicant is not an Australian legal practitioner; and
(c) state that the applicant is not the subject of disciplinary proceedings in
Australia or a foreign country (including any preliminary investigations or
action that might lead to disciplinary proceedings) in his or her capacity
as
(i) an overseas-registered foreign lawyer; or
(ii) an Australian-registered foreign lawyer; or
(iii) an Australian lawyer; and
(d) state whether the applicant has been convicted of an offence in Australia
or a foreign country, and if so
(i) the nature of the offence; and
(ii) how long ago the offence was committed; and
(iii) the applicant's age when the offence was committed; and
(e) state that the applicants registration is not cancelled or currently
suspended in any place as a result of any disciplinary action in Australia or
a foreign country; and
(f) state
(i) that the applicant is not otherwise personally prohibited from engaging in
legal practice in any place or bound by any undertaking not to engage in legal
practice in any place; and
(ii) whether or not the applicant is subject to any special conditions in
engaging in legal practice in any place
as a result of criminal,
civil or disciplinary proceedings in Australia or a foreign country; and
(g) specify any special conditions imposed in Australia or a foreign country
as a restriction on legal practice engaged in by the applicant or any
undertaking given by the applicant restricting the applicants practice
of law; and
(h) give consent to the making of inquiries of, and the exchange of
information with, any foreign registration authorities the domestic
registration authority considers appropriate regarding the applicants
activities in engaging in legal practice in the places concerned or otherwise
regarding matters relevant to the application; and
(i) specify which of the paragraphs of section 175(1) (Professional
indemnity insurance) the applicant proposes to rely on and be accompanied by
supporting proof of the relevant matters; and
(j) provide the information or be accompanied by the other information or
documents (or both) that is specified in the application form or in material
accompanying the application form as provided by the domestic registration
authority.
(3) The application must (if the domestic registration authority so
requires) be accompanied by an original instrument, or a copy of an original
instrument, from each foreign registration authority specified in the
application that
(a) verifies the applicants educational and professional qualifications;
and
(b) verifies the applicants registration by the authority to engage in
legal practice in the foreign country concerned, and the date of registration;
and
(c) describes anything done by the applicant in engaging in legal practice in
that foreign country of which the authority is aware and that, in the opinion
of the authority, has had or is likely to have had an adverse effect on the
applicants professional standing within the legal profession of that
place.
(4) The applicant must (if the domestic registration authority so
requires) certify in the application that the accompanying instrument is the
original or a complete and accurate copy of the original.
(5) The domestic registration authority may require the applicant to
verify the statements in the application by statutory declaration or by other
proof acceptable to the authority.
(6) If the accompanying instrument is not in English, it must be
accompanied by a translation in English that is authenticated or certified to
the satisfaction of the domestic registration authority.
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