152Definitions—pt 2.7

152 Definitions—pt 2.7 Australia includes the external territories. Australian law means law of the Commonwealth or of a jurisdiction. foreign law means law of a foreign country. foreign law practice means a partnership or corporate entity that is entitled to engage in legal practice in a foreign country. foreign licensing body means an entity in a foreign country having the function, given by the law of the foreign country, of registering people to engage in legal practice in the foreign country. local registration certificate means a registration certificate given overseas-registered foreign lawyer means an individual who is properly registered to engage in legal practice in a foreign country by the foreign licensing body for the country. practise foreign law means doing work, or transacting business, in the ACT concerning foreign law, being work or business of a kind that, if it concerned a territory law, would ordinarily be done or transacted by an Australian legal practitioner. registered, if used in relation to a foreign country, means having all necessary licences, approvals, admissions, certificates or other forms of authorisation (including practising certificates) required under legislation for engaging in legal practice in the country.