Legal Profession Amendment (Transitional) Regulation 2005 (NSW)

2005 No 601

New South Wales

Legal Profession Amendment (Transitional) Regulation 2005

under the

Legal Profession Act 2004

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Legal Profession Act 2004.

BOB DEBUS, M.P.,

Attorney General

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Legal Profession Regulation 2005 to ensure that the holder of a local practising certificate is not in breach of the statutory condition imposed by section 41 (4) of the Legal Profession Act 2004 against holding another practising certificate if the other certificate is an interstate practising certificate granted or issued before 1 October 2005 (which is the date of commencement of the Act).

This Regulation is made under the Legal Profession Act 2004, including section 738 and clause 1 of Schedule 9.

Published in Gazette No 120 of 30 September 2005, page 7712	Page 1
2005 No 601
Clause 1	Legal Profession Amendment (Transitional) Regulation 2005

Legal Profession Amendment (Transitional) Regulation

2005

under the

Legal Profession Act 2004

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Legal Profession Amendment (Transitional)
Regulation 2005.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 October 2005.

3 Amendment of Legal Profession Regulation 2005

The Legal Profession Regulation 2005 is amended by inserting after clause 179:

180      Transitional: statutory condition regarding holding more than one practising certificate—interstate certificates

(1)	Section 41 (4) of the Act does not apply in relation to an interstate practising certificate granted or issued before 1 October 2005.
(2)	Subclause (1) has effect only in relation to the period commencing on 1 October 2005 and ending with 30 June 2006.

BY AUTHORITY