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.