sec.163Definitions for pt 2.8

### sec.163 Definitions for pt 2.8 In this part— Australia includes the external Territories. Australian law means law of the Commonwealth or of a jurisdiction. foreign law practice means a partnership or corporate entity that is entitled to engage in legal practice in a foreign country. foreign registration authority means an entity in a foreign country having the function, conferred by the law of the foreign country, of registering persons to engage in legal practice in the foreign country. local registration certificate means a registration certificate given under this part. overseas-registered foreign lawyer means an individual who is properly registered to engage in legal practice in a foreign country by the foreign registration authority for the country. practise foreign law means doing work, or transacting business, in this jurisdiction concerning foreign law, being work or business of a kind that, if it concerned the law of this jurisdiction, would ordinarily be done or transacted by an Australian legal practitioner. registered , when used in connection with a foreign country, means having all necessary licences, approvals, admissions, certificates or other forms of authorisation (including practising certificates) required under legislation for engaging in legal practice in that country.