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Legal Profession Act 2006
256Application of pt 3.1 to community legal centres
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256 Application of pt 3.1 to community legal centres
provision of this Act relating to trust money and trust accounts, does
not apply to a complying community legal centre or applies with
prescribed changes.
of this Act relating to trust money and trust accounts, to a complying
community legal centre—
(a) the obligations and rights of an Australian legal practitioner
under the provision extends to a complying community legal
centre that is a corporation, but only in relation to legal services
provided by the centre; and
(b) money received by an Australian legal practitioner on behalf of
someone else in the course of practising as an Australian legal
practitioner includes money received by anyone who is an
officer or employee of, or whose services are used by, a
complying community legal centre on behalf of someone else in
the course of providing legal services.