Legal Profession Act 2006
380Law society council may require information about
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380 Law society council may require information about mortgage practices (1) The law society council may, by written notice, require a solicitor to provide information to the law society council about any of the (a) whether the solicitor, an associate of the solicitor or a person engaged by the solicitor negotiates the making of or acts in relation to regulated mortgages or has done so in the past; (b) details of regulated mortgages that continue to have effect; (c) whether the solicitor intends— (i) to nominate the solicitor’s practice as a territory regulated mortgage practice; or (ii) to transfer responsibility for any regulated mortgage; or (iii) to take no further action in relation to any regulated mortgage;
Miscellaneous—pt 3.5 Division 3.5.4 (d) any other information, relating to regulated mortgages, prescribed by regulation or legal profession rules. (2) A solicitor who contravenes a notice under this section commits professional misconduct.