Legal Profession Act 1987 Legal Profession (National Practising Certificates) Amendment Regulation 1997 (1997-381) [GG No 88 of 8.8.1997, p 6091] (NSW)

1997 No 381

New South Wales

Legal Profession (National Practising

Certificates) Amendment Regulation

1997

under the

Legal Profession Act 1987

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Legal Profession Act 1987.

J. W. Shaw

Attorney General

Explanatory note

Part 3B (sections 48N-48ZD) of the Legal Profession Act 1987 provides for a national practising certificate scheme. The object of the scheme is to enable any individual who is authorised to practise law in one State to practise law in an equivalent way in all other States participating in the scheme.

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe certain matters relating to the notification by an interstate legal practitioner of the establishment of an office by the practitioner in New South Wales for the purposes of section 48T of the Legal Profession Act 1987.

This Regulation is made under the Legal Profession Act 1987, including sections 48T and 216 (the general regulation making power).

Published in Gazette No 88 of 8 August 1997, page 6091 Page 1

1997 No 381

Clause 1 Legal Profession (National Practising Certificates) Amendment Regulation 1997

Legal Profession (National Practising

Certificates) Amendment Regulation 1997

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Legal Profession (National Practising

Certificates) Amendment Regulation 1997.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 11th August 1997.

3 Amendment of Legal Profession Regulation 1994

The Legal Profession Regulation 1994 is amended as set out in

Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

1997 No 381

Legal Profession (National Practising Certificates) Amendment Regulation 1997

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 3)

Part 3A National practising certificates

Insert after clause 13:

Part 3A National practising certificates

13A Notification of establishment of office

Written notice under section 48T of the Act is to be given within 21 days after the interstate legal practitioner establishes an office in this State.

13B Requirements of written notice

A notice under section 48T (2) of the Act is to contain the following particulars:

(a)	the full name and residential address of the interstate legal practitioner,
(b)	the participating State in which the practitioner has been admitted to legal practice,
(c)	a description of the authority to practice conferred by the current practising certificate issued or given by a regulatory authority in that State,
(d)	any other State in which the practitioner has been admitted to legal practice or been issued with or given a current practising certificate,
(e)	the firm name, or the name of the employer, of the practitioner, including, if the practitioner is a partner, the name of the partnership,
(f)	the address of the office established in this State by the practitioner,
(g)	the address of the sole or principal place of legal practice in the home State of the practitioner as well as the addresses of any other offices in Australia,
(h)	any other particulars requested in writing by the appropriate Council.