32Admissions board is respondent to applications under

32 Admissions board is respondent to applications under pt 2.3 The admissions board is taken to be a respondent to every application under this part not made by it.

Preliminary—pt 2.4 Division 2.4.1 Part 2.4 Legal practice by Australian legal Division 2.4.1 Preliminary—pt 2.4 33 Purposes and application—pt 2.4 (1) The purposes of this part are as follows: (a) to facilitate the national practice of law by ensuring that Australian legal practitioners can engage in legal practice in the ACT and to provide for the certification of Australian lawyers whether or not admitted in the ACT; (b) to provide a system for the grant and renewal of local practising (2) A regulation may provide that a provision of this part applies with prescribed changes to— (a) a government lawyer in relation to the lawyer’s official functions as a government lawyer; or (b) an in-house lawyer for a corporation in relation to the provision of in-house legal services for the corporation (or a related body corporate). in-house lawyer means an Australian lawyer who— (a) is employed by a corporation, that is not an incorporated legal (b) provides only in-house legal services to the corporation (or a related body corporate).

Division 2.4.2 Legal practice in ACT by Australian legal practitioners Division 2.4.2 Legal practice in ACT by Australian 34 Entitlement of holder of Australian practising certificate to practise in ACT An Australian legal practitioner is, subject to this Act, entitled to engage in legal practice in the ACT.