60Register of local practising certificates

60 Register of local practising certificates

60 Register of local practising certificates

(1) For the Act, section 149(3)(a), the following information must be included in a register kept under the Act, section 149 for a local legal practitioner in the register—

(a) the category of local practising certificate held by the practitioner,

(b) the contact details of the practitioner’s office,

(c) other information about the practitioner the appropriate Council considers should be included.

(2) For a local legal practitioner who is a solicitor, the register must also contain the following information—

(a) if the solicitor is an associate of a law practice—the name of the law practice,

(b) if the solicitor is not an associate of a law practice—the name of the entity—

(i) of which the solicitor is a director, officer or employee, or

(ii) with which the solicitor is otherwise engaged in legal practice,

(c) if the office of the law practice or entity referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) is located in NSW—in a separate additional entry, the name and contact details of the office,

(d) other information about the law practice or entity the appropriate Council considers should be included.

(3) However, information in subsection (1) or (2) must not be included in the register if—

(a) a local legal practitioner requests, in writing, the information be excluded, and

(b) the appropriate Council is satisfied that special circumstances exist to justify excluding the information, and

Example—

The local legal practitioner’s safety or well-being would be substantially affected by making the information publicly available.

(c) the public interest in making the information publicly available does not outweigh the interest of one or more persons in the information not being publicly available.

(4) In this section—

contact details, of an office, mean the office’s—

(a) street address, and