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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 257

Register of unclaimed money

(1)  A law practice must keep a register of any unclaimed money in its trust account.
(2)  A register is to specify the following details relating to each amount of unclaimed money:
(a) the name and address of the person entitled to that unclaimed money;
(b) the total amount due to that person;
(c) the description of that unclaimed money;
(d) the date of the last claim.
(3)  A law practice must, on or before the last day of January in each year, lodge a copy of the register with the Trust.
(4)  On receipt of the copy of the register, the Trust is to cause the information referred to in subsection (2) to be published in the Gazette and in the daily newspapers published and circulating in Tasmania.
(5)  A law practice must make available the register at all reasonable times to any person for inspection at the office from which the law practice normally carries on business.



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