Legal Profession Regulations 2018
19Register of locally registered foreign lawyers
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19 Register of locally registered foreign lawyers
(1) For the purposes of section 211(2)(b) of the Act, the particulars referred to in subregulation (2) are prescribed as particulars to be included in the register kept under section 211 of the Act in relation to a locally registered foreign lawyer, except where the Board is required by subregulation (5) not to include them in the register.
(2) The particulars to be included in the register are as follows:
(a) the name of the foreign lawyer;
(b) the date on which registration as a foreign lawyer was granted or renewed;
(c) the name of the partnership of which the lawyer is a member or employee or, if the lawyer is not a member or employee of a partnership, the name of the entity of which the lawyer is a director, officer or employee or with which the lawyer is otherwise engaged in legal practice;
(d) the contact details of each office of the partnership or other entity in this jurisdiction;
(e) details of the foreign registration authority or authorities by which the lawyer is registered to engage in legal practice in a foreign country or foreign countries;
(f) any other particulars about the lawyer, partnership or other entity that the authority considers should be included.
(3) Contact details of an office are the following:
(a) its street address (the address where the office is physically located);
(b) its postal address (a post office box number and the location and postcode of the post office), if any;
(c) its DX address (the number of the exchange box in a document exchange (DX)), if any.
(4) A locally registered foreign lawyer may, by notice in writing to the Board, request the authority not to include any or any specified particulars about the lawyer, partnership or other entity in the register, on the ground that special circumstances warrant the particulars not being publicly available (for example, if the safety or wellbeing of a person would be substantially affected by making the particulars publicly available).