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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.65Consensual amendment or cancellation etc.
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### sec.65 Consensual amendment or cancellation etc.
Subsection (2) applies if—
a local legal practitioner applies, in the approved form, to the regulatory authority to amend or cancel the practitioner’s practising certificate; or
the regulatory authority proposes to amend a local legal practitioner’s practising certificate—
only for a formal or clerical reason or in another way that does not adversely affect the practitioner’s interests; and
the practitioner agrees in writing to the amendment.
The authority may amend or cancel the local practising certificate as mentioned in subsection (1) by written notice given to the legal practitioner.
Section 61 does not apply in a case to which this section applies.
(sec.65-ssec.1) Subsection (2) applies if— a local legal practitioner applies, in the approved form, to the regulatory authority to amend or cancel the practitioner’s practising certificate; or the regulatory authority proposes to amend a local legal practitioner’s practising certificate— only for a formal or clerical reason or in another way that does not adversely affect the practitioner’s interests; and the practitioner agrees in writing to the amendment.
(sec.65-ssec.2) The authority may amend or cancel the local practising certificate as mentioned in subsection (1) by written notice given to the legal practitioner.
(sec.65-ssec.3) Section 61 does not apply in a case to which this section applies.
- (a) a local legal practitioner applies, in the approved form, to the regulatory authority to amend or cancel the practitioner’s practising certificate; or
- (b) the regulatory authority proposes to amend a local legal practitioner’s practising certificate— (i) only for a formal or clerical reason or in another way that does not adversely affect the practitioner’s interests; and (ii) the practitioner agrees in writing to the amendment.
- (i) only for a formal or clerical reason or in another way that does not adversely affect the practitioner’s interests; and
- (ii) the practitioner agrees in writing to the amendment.
- (i) only for a formal or clerical reason or in another way that does not adversely affect the practitioner’s interests; and
- (ii) the practitioner agrees in writing to the amendment.