Legal Profession (Strengthening Disciplinary Matters) Amendment Bill 2026

Queensland Legal Profession (Strengthening Disciplinary Matters) Amendment Bill 2026

Queensland Legal Profession (Strengthening Disciplinary Matters) Amendment Bill 2026 Contents Page Part 1 Preliminary 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Part 2 Amendment of Legal Profession Act 2007 3 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4 Amendment of s 10 (Information notices) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 Amendment of s 26 (Associates who are disqualified or convicted persons) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6 Amendment of s 29 (Definitions for pt 2.3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7 Amendment of s 32 (Early consideration of suitability) . . . . . . . . 12 8 Replacement of s 33 (Involvement of tribunal and Supreme Court) 13 33 Appeal to Court of Appeal against board’s refusal to make suitability declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 33A Appeal to Supreme Court against board’s refusal to make suitability declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9 Amendment of s 46 (Suitability to hold local practising certificate) 14 10 Amendment of s 51 (Grant or renewal of local practising certificate) 14 11 Amendment of s 54 (Applications relating to conditions) . . . . . . 14 12 Amendment of s 61 (Amending, suspending or cancelling a local practising certificate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 13 Amendment of s 62 (Operation of amendment, suspension or cancellation of local practising certificate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 14 Amendment of s 63 (Immediate amendment or suspension of local practising certificate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15 Amendment of s 69 (Refusal, amendment, suspension or cancellation of local practising certificate because of failure to show cause) . . . 15 16 Amendment of s 70 (Restriction on making further application) . 16

Contents Legal Profession (Strengthening Disciplinary Matters) Amendment Bill 2026 Page 2 Authorised by the Parliamentary Counsel 17 Amendment of s 76 (Additional condition on interstate legal practitioner engaging in legal practice in this jurisdiction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 18 Amendment of s 87 (Health assessment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 19 Amendment of s 98 (Law society and bar association to notify other jurisdictions about particular matters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 20 Amendment of s 183 (Grant or renewal of local registration) . . . 17 21 Amendment of s 185 (Refusal to grant or renew registration) . . . 17 22 Amendment of s 188 (Amending, suspending or cancelling registration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 23 Amendment of s 189 (Operation of amendment, suspension or cancellation of registration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 24 Amendment of s 194 (Refusal, amendment, suspension or cancellation of local registration—failure to show cause) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 25 Amendment of s 195 (Restriction on making further applications) 18 26 Amendment of s 197 (Immediate suspension of registration) . . . 18 27 Amendment of s 208 (Additional conditions on practice of interstate- registered foreign lawyers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 28 Amendment of s 278 (Disqualification of person as external examiner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 29 Amendment of s 328 (Setting aside costs agreements) . . . . . . . 19 30 Amendment of s 375 (Time limit for making claims) . . . . . . . . . . 19 31 Amendment of s 377 (Time limit for making claims following advertisement) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 32 Replacement of ch 3, pt 3.6, div 7, hdg (Review) . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 33 Amendment of s 392 (Review of decision on claim) . . . . . . . . . . 22 34 Amendment of s 393 (Review of failure to decide claim within 1 year) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 35 Amendment of s 394 (Proceedings on review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 36 Amendment of s 396 (Limiting payments from fidelity fund to capped amount) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 37 Amendment of s 420 (Conduct capable of constituting unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct) . . . . . . . . . . . 24 38 Amendment of s 443 (Powers for investigations) . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 39 Amendment of s 452 (Starting proceeding before a disciplinary body) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 40 Amendment of s 456 (Decisions of tribunal about an Australian legal practitioner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 41 Replacement of s 457 (Enforcement of orders etc.) . . . . . . . . . . 26 457 Notification of Supreme Court orders . . . . . . . . . . . . 26