117Supervising legal practitioner

117 Supervising legal practitioner

117 Supervising legal practitioner

(1) A community legal service or its governing body is required to have at least one Australian legal practitioner who—

(a) is employed or engaged by the service or is a member of its governing body; and

(b) is designated by the governing body as a supervising legal practitioner for the service and responsible for the provision of legal services by the service.

(2) A community legal service contravenes this section if it or its governing body does not have any supervising legal practitioners for a period exceeding 7 days.

Penalty: 250 penalty units.

Note

A supervising legal practitioner is a principal of the law practice.