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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.785Application of amended show cause event definition and additional obligation to give notice and statement
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### sec.785 Application of amended show cause event definition and additional obligation to give notice and statement
This section applies to a person who is a local legal practitioner, or a locally registered foreign lawyer, and who—
on the commencement, is a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice that is an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act ; or
at any time before the commencement, was a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice while it was an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act .
It is declared that the matter mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) is a show cause event that has happened in relation to the person.
The person must comply with the following for the show cause event—
if the person is a local legal practitioner—section 68;
if the person is a locally registered foreign lawyer—section 193.
For subsection (3), the show cause event is taken to have happened on the commencement.
s 785 ins 2017 No. 17 s 164
(sec.785-ssec.1) This section applies to a person who is a local legal practitioner, or a locally registered foreign lawyer, and who— on the commencement, is a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice that is an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act ; or at any time before the commencement, was a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice while it was an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act .
(sec.785-ssec.2) It is declared that the matter mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) is a show cause event that has happened in relation to the person.
(sec.785-ssec.3) The person must comply with the following for the show cause event— if the person is a local legal practitioner—section 68; if the person is a locally registered foreign lawyer—section 193.
(sec.785-ssec.4) For subsection (3), the show cause event is taken to have happened on the commencement.
- (a) on the commencement, is a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice that is an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act ; or
- (b) at any time before the commencement, was a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal practice while it was an externally-administered body corporate under the Corporations Act .
- (a) if the person is a local legal practitioner—section 68;
- (b) if the person is a locally registered foreign lawyer—section 193.