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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.204Statutory condition regarding notification of offence
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### sec.204 Statutory condition regarding notification of offence
It is a statutory condition of a registration as a foreign lawyer that the lawyer must give notice, in a law society approved form, to the law society if the lawyer is—
convicted of an offence that would have to be disclosed in relation to an application for registration as a foreign lawyer; or
charged with a serious offence.
The notice must be given to the law society within 7 days after the conviction or the day the lawyer is charged.
A regulation may state the person to whom, or the address to which, the notice is to be given.
This section does not apply to an offence to which division 7 applies.
(sec.204-ssec.1) It is a statutory condition of a registration as a foreign lawyer that the lawyer must give notice, in a law society approved form, to the law society if the lawyer is— convicted of an offence that would have to be disclosed in relation to an application for registration as a foreign lawyer; or charged with a serious offence.
(sec.204-ssec.2) The notice must be given to the law society within 7 days after the conviction or the day the lawyer is charged.
(sec.204-ssec.3) A regulation may state the person to whom, or the address to which, the notice is to be given.
(sec.204-ssec.4) This section does not apply to an offence to which division 7 applies.
- (a) convicted of an offence that would have to be disclosed in relation to an application for registration as a foreign lawyer; or
- (b) charged with a serious offence.