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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 278

Application of Part to community legal centres

(1)  The regulations may provide that specified provisions of this Part, and any other provisions of this Act, the regulations or any legal profession rule relating to trust money and trust accounts, do not apply to complying community legal centres or apply to them with specified modifications.
(2)  For the purposes of the application of the provisions of this Part, and any other provisions of this Act, the regulations or any legal profession rule relating to trust money and trust accounts, to a complying community legal centre –
(a) the obligations and rights of an Australian legal practitioner under those provisions extend to a complying community legal centre that is a body corporate, but only in connection with legal services provided by the centre; and
(b) money received by an Australian legal practitioner on behalf of another person in the course of practising as an Australian legal practitioner includes money received by any officer or employee of the complying community legal centre on behalf of another person in the course of providing legal services.
(3)  In this section –
employee of a complying community legal centre includes a person whose services are made use of by the community legal centre in connection with the provision of legal services by the centre.



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