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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.295Disclosure of accounts used to hold money entrusted to legal practitioners
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### sec.295 Disclosure of accounts used to hold money entrusted to legal practitioners
A law practice must notify the law society of each account kept at an ADI in which the law practice or a legal practitioner associate of the law practice holds money entrusted to the law practice or legal practitioner associate.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
Subsection (1) applies to a law practice whether or not the money is trust money and whether or not section 238 or 239 applies to the money.
The law society must notify the chief executive about the matters the law society is given notice of by law practices under subsection (1) .
A notification under this section must be given in the way, and include the details, prescribed by regulation.
s 295 amd 2016 No. 59 s 19
(sec.295-ssec.1) A law practice must notify the law society of each account kept at an ADI in which the law practice or a legal practitioner associate of the law practice holds money entrusted to the law practice or legal practitioner associate. Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(sec.295-ssec.2) Subsection (1) applies to a law practice whether or not the money is trust money and whether or not section 238 or 239 applies to the money.
(sec.295-ssec.3) The law society must notify the chief executive about the matters the law society is given notice of by law practices under subsection (1) .
(sec.295-ssec.4) A notification under this section must be given in the way, and include the details, prescribed by regulation.