Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW)
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56 Government lawyers
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It is intended that jurisdictional legislation may—
(a) exempt persons or classes of persons from the requirement to hold Australian practising certificates, either generally or for specified periods, in respect of their official functions as government lawyers; and
(b) without limitation, exclude or modify the operation of specified provisions of this Law (including provisions of Part 2.2) to the extent that any of those provisions would otherwise be applicable to any persons, or classes of persons, as government lawyers.