Legal Practice Board Amendment Rules 2006 (WA)

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Rules 2006.

JU301*

Legal Practice Act 2003

Legal Practice Board Amendment Rules 2006

Made by the Legal Practice Board under the Act section 252.

1.            Citation

These rules are the Legal Practice Board Amendment

2 May 2006 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1705

2.            The rules amended

The amendments in these rules are to the Legal Practice Board
Rules 2004*.

[* Published in Gazette 14 May 2004, P. 1473-557.

For amendments to 19 April 2006 see Western Australian Legislation Information Tables for 2005, Table 4, p. 226.]

3.             Rule 44 amended

(1) Rule 44(1) is repealed and the following subrules are inserted

44   instead -

(1) For the purposes of section 37(2)(b) the following information must be included in, or accompany, an application for a practice certificate -

(a)	the applicant's full name and residential contact details;
(b)	the name and contact details of the applicant's practice or place of employment;
(c)	the capacity in which the applicant practices;
(d)	a statement to the effect that the applicant is not a disqualified person, is not an insolvent practitioner and is not in prison;
(e)	a statement as to whether, in the course of the applicant's practice, the applicant will accept trust moneys;
(f)	if the applicant will accept trust moneys -

(i) the following information in relation to

the applicant's trust account -

(I)	the name of the account;
(II)	the name of the bank;

(IV) the date the account was

(ffl) the BSB and account number:

opened;

and

(ii) the name and contact details of the

auditor of the trust account.

(la) Insubrule(1)-

"contact details" means -

(a)	Street address; and
(b)	postal address, if different from Street address; and
(c)	telephone number; and
(d)	facsimile number (if any); and

(f) email address (if any).

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(2)	Rule 44(3)(a) and (b) are amended by deleting "lodged with" and inserting instead —
" received by ".
(3)	Rule 44(4) is amended as follows:

(a)	by deleting "lodged with" and inserting instead — " received by ";
(b)

in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), by deleting "lodged" and " received ".

4.            Schedule 1 amended

Schedule 1 is amended by deleting Form 17.

Made by the Legal Practice Board under section 252

ROBERT COCK QC, Member.

IAN WELDON, Member.

STEVEN PENGLIS, Member.

GREG CALCUTT AMSC, Member.