9Register of local practising certificates

9 Register of local practising certificates

(1)  For the purposes of section 88(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 88 of the Act in relation to a local legal practitioner, 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 local legal practitioner;

(b) the date of admission of the practitioner;

(c) the type of local practising certificate held by the practitioner;

(d) the date on which the local practising certificate was granted or renewed;

(e) the name of the law practice of which the practitioner is an associate or, if the practitioner is not an associate of a law practice, the name of the entity of which the practitioner is a director, officer or employee or with which the practitioner is otherwise engaged in legal practice;

(f) the contact details of each office of the law practice or other entity in this jurisdiction;

(g) any other particulars about the practitioner, law practice or other entity that the Board 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 local legal practitioner may, by notice in writing to the Board, request the Board not to include any or any specified particulars about the practitioner, law practice 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).