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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.116Notice of termination of provision of legal services
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### sec.116 Notice of termination of provision of legal services
A corporation must, within the period prescribed under a regulation after it stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction as an incorporated legal practice, give the law society notice, in the law society approved form, of that fact.
Maximum penalty—
for a person guilty under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of an offence—20 penalty units; or
for a corporation—100 penalty units.
A regulation may make provision about circumstances that may be taken into account when deciding whether and when a corporation stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction.
Circumstances prescribed under a regulation are examples, and do not limit, whether and when a corporation stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction.
s 116 amd 2013 No. 51 s 93
(sec.116-ssec.1) A corporation must, within the period prescribed under a regulation after it stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction as an incorporated legal practice, give the law society notice, in the law society approved form, of that fact. Maximum penalty— for a person guilty under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of an offence—20 penalty units; or for a corporation—100 penalty units.
(sec.116-ssec.2) A regulation may make provision about circumstances that may be taken into account when deciding whether and when a corporation stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction.
(sec.116-ssec.3) Circumstances prescribed under a regulation are examples, and do not limit, whether and when a corporation stops engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction.
- (a) for a person guilty under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of an offence—20 penalty units; or
- (b) for a corporation—100 penalty units.