157Scope of practice of Australian-registered foreign lawyer

157 Scope of practice of Australian-registered foreign lawyer (1) An Australian-registered foreign lawyer may provide only the following legal services in the ACT: (a) doing work, or transacting business, concerning the law of a foreign country where the lawyer is registered by the foreign licensing body for the country; (b) legal services (including appearances) in relation to arbitration proceedings of a kind prescribed by regulation; (c) legal services (including appearances) in relation to proceedings before a body (other than a court) in which the body is not required to apply the rules of evidence and in which knowledge of the foreign law of a country mentioned in paragraph (a) is essential; (d) legal services for conciliation, mediation and other forms of consensual dispute resolution of a kind prescribed by regulation. (2) This Act does not authorise an Australian-registered foreign lawyer to appear in any court (except on the lawyer’s own behalf) or to practise Australian law in the ACT. (3) Despite subsection (2), an Australian-registered foreign lawyer may advise on the effect of an Australian law if— (a) the giving of advice on Australian law is necessarily incidental to the practice of foreign law; and (b) the advice is expressly based on advice given on the Australian law by an Australian legal practitioner who is not an employee of the foreign lawyer.