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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.412Interstate legal practitioner becoming authorised to withdraw from local trust account
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### sec.412 Interstate legal practitioner becoming authorised to withdraw from local trust account
This section applies to an interstate legal practitioner who, whether alone or with a cosignatory, becomes authorised to withdraw money from a local trust account.
A regulation may do either or both of the following—
require the practitioner to notify the law society of the authorisation;
require the practitioner to make contributions and pay levies to the fidelity fund as if the practitioner were a local legal practitioner.
Without limiting subsection (2) , a regulation may provide for—
the way in which the notice is to be given and the information or material that is to be included in or to accompany the notice; and
the amount of the contributions, their frequency and the way in which they are to be made.
(sec.412-ssec.1) This section applies to an interstate legal practitioner who, whether alone or with a cosignatory, becomes authorised to withdraw money from a local trust account.
(sec.412-ssec.2) A regulation may do either or both of the following— require the practitioner to notify the law society of the authorisation; require the practitioner to make contributions and pay levies to the fidelity fund as if the practitioner were a local legal practitioner.
(sec.412-ssec.3) Without limiting subsection (2) , a regulation may provide for— the way in which the notice is to be given and the information or material that is to be included in or to accompany the notice; and the amount of the contributions, their frequency and the way in which they are to be made.
- (a) require the practitioner to notify the law society of the authorisation;
- (b) require the practitioner to make contributions and pay levies to the fidelity fund as if the practitioner were a local legal practitioner.
- (a) the way in which the notice is to be given and the information or material that is to be included in or to accompany the notice; and
- (b) the amount of the contributions, their frequency and the way in which they are to be made.