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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.163Definitions for pt 2.8
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### 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.