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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 508

Compliance with recommendations or orders made under corresponding laws

(1)  Persons and bodies having relevant functions or powers under this Act must –
(a) give effect to or enforce any recommendation or order of a corresponding disciplinary body or other corresponding authority made under a corresponding law in relation to powers exercisable under this Act; and
(b) give effect to or enforce any recommendation or order of a corresponding disciplinary body or other corresponding authority made under a corresponding law so far as the recommendation or order relates to the practice of law by the Australian legal practitioner concerned in this jurisdiction.
(2)  If a corresponding disciplinary body makes an order that the name of an Australian legal practitioner be removed from the roll of lawyers under this Act by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, the Registrar is to remove the name of the practitioner from the roll.
(3)  If a corresponding disciplinary body makes an order that an Australian legal practitioner pay a fine, a copy of the order may be filed in the Supreme Court and the order may be enforced as if it were an order of that court.



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