Legal Profession Regulations 2018
14Disqualifications and prohibitions
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14 Disqualifications and prohibitions
(1) In this regulation –
protected person means –
(a) the State; or
(b) the Board; or
(c) the prescribed authority; or
(d) a person responsible for keeping the whole or any part of a register or any similar record in or by which an order is publicised; or
(e) an internet service provider or internet content host; or
(f) a person acting at the direction of the State or of any person or body referred to in this definition.
(2) This regulation applies to –
(a) an order made under section 132 of the Act disqualifying a corporation from providing legal services in this jurisdiction; or
(b) an order made under section 133 of the Act disqualifying a person from managing a corporation that is an incorporated legal practice; or
(c) an order made under section 158 of the Act prohibiting an Australian legal practitioner from being a partner of a specified person –
being an order made on the application of the prescribed authority.
(3) The prescribed authority may publicise an order in any manner the prescribed authority thinks fit.
(4) The prescribed authority –
(a) must, as soon as practicable after the order is made, give written notice of the order to the corresponding authority of every other jurisdiction; and
(b) may give written notice of the order to any other regulatory authority of any jurisdiction.
(5) The notice under subregulation (4) for an order made under section 132 of the Act –