433Public availability of Australian Legal Profession Register

433 Public availability of Australian Legal Profession Register

433 Public availability of Australian Legal Profession Register

(1) This section applies if the Council maintains an Australian Legal Profession Register.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Council must ensure that a current version of the Australian Legal Profession Register is—

(a) publicly available for inspection, without charge, at the Council’s office during normal business hours; and

(b) publicly available, without charge, at all reasonable times on its website or another publicly accessible website.

(3) The Uniform Rules may provide for certain information to be excluded from the publicly available version of the Register in order—

(a) to protect the personal safety of any person; or

(b) to avoid prejudicing any investigation, inquiry or legal or other proceedings; or

(c) to balance the privacy of any person to whom the details relate with consumer and public interests in making the details publicly available.