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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2014 - SECT 72A

Fees for assessments regarding foreign qualification or training

    (1)     If the Admission Rules provide for the Victorian Legal Admissions Board to undertake an assessment referred to in subsection (2), the Board may charge a person who requests such an assessment a fee to recover the Board's reasonable costs in undertaking the assessment.

    (2)     Subsection (1) applies in relation to an assessment as to what a person with foreign qualifications or training must do in order to satisfy—

        (a)     the specified academic qualifications prerequisite referred to in section 17 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria); and

        (b)     the specified practical legal training prerequisite referred to in that section.

    (3)     For the purposes of subsection (2), a person has foreign qualifications or training if the person has—

        (a)     attained an academic qualification in law in a foreign country; or

        (b)     undertaken work required to attain an academic qualification in law in a foreign country; or

        (c)     undertaken practical legal training in a foreign country.

Division 2—Australian practising certificates



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