38Fee for practising certificate

#### 38 Fee for practising certificate 38 Fee for practising certificate > > (1) A fee is payable for the grant or renewal of a local practising certificate of such amount as is determined by the appropriate Council and approved by the Attorney General. > > > (2) A Council may determine different practising certificate fees according to different factors that are specified in the determination and approved by the Attorney General. > > > (3) A Council may waive or postpone payment of the practising certificate fee or any part of the fee. > > > (4) Subject to the local regulations (if any), a Council is to determine the practising certificate fee on a cost recovery basis, with the fee being such amount as is required from time to time for the purpose of recovering the costs of or associated with the regulatory functions of the Council or of the Bar Association or Law Society, as the case requires. > > > (5) The regulatory functions of a Council, the Bar Association or the Law Society are its functions under this Act, and any other functions it exercises that are associated with the regulation of legal practice or maintaining professional standards of legal practice. > > > (6) The practising certificate fee is not to include any charge for membership of the Bar Association or Law Society and is not to include any amount that is required for the purpose of recovering any costs of or associated with providing services or benefits to which local legal practitioners become entitled as members of the Bar Association or Law Society. > > > (7) In addition, in determining the practising certificate fee, a Council must exclude costs that are otherwise recoverable under this Act (for example, costs payable from the Public Purpose Fund under this Act). > > > (8) The local regulations may make provision for or with respect to the determination of practising certificate fees, including by specifying the costs that may or may not be recovered by the charging of practising certificate fees. > > > (9) In this section— > > > > costs includes expenses.