Legal Practice Board Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2002 (WA)

4458 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 30 August 2002

LEGAL PRACTICE BOARD

LX301*

Legal Practitioners Act 1893

Legal Practice Board Amendment Rules

(No. 2) 2002

Made under section 6 by The Legal Practice Board.

1.             Citation

These rules may be cited as the Legal Practice Board
Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2002.

2.             The rules amended

The amendments in these rules are to the Legal Practice Board
Rules 1949*.

[* Reprinted 9 March 2001.

For amendments to 23 July 2002 see 2001 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 190, and
Gazette 18 June 2002.]

3.             Rule 97 amended

(1)	Rule 97 is amended by inserting before “Every” the sub-rule designation (1).
(2)	At the end of rule 97 the following sub-rule is inserted —

“

(2) A cheque drawn by a practitioner on the trust account
shall —

(a)	not be made payable to cash;
(b)	be crossed generally or specifically and marked “not negotiable”; and
(c)	be signed by the practitioner, a partner of the practitioner or 2 persons authorised by the practitioner in writing to sign cheques drawn by the practitioner on the trust account.

”.

Mr K. J. MARTIN QC, Member.
Mr R. E. BIRMINGHAM QC, Member.
Mr R. K. O’CONNOR QC, Member.
Mr R. E. COCK QC, Member.