Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2025 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 33/2025

Version as at

9 June 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Revocation

5Definition

6Maximum fidelity fund contributions and levies

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Endnotes

1     General information

2     Table of Amendments

3     Explanatory details

Version No. 001

Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 33/2025

Version as at

9 June 2025

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe matters required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 156 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 9 June 2025.

4Revocation

The Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2015[1] are revoked.

5Definition

In these Regulations—

the Actmeans the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.

6Maximum fidelity fund contributions and levies

(1)For the purposes of section 131(2) of the Act, the following amounts of the contribution to the fidelity fund are prescribed—

(a)in the case of an annual contribution by a person under section 225 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria)—

(i)in the case of a person employed by a community legal service, $100.00; or

(ii)in the case of any other person, $1500.00;

(b)in the case of an annual contribution under section 128 of the Act by a community legal service or an approved clerk, $1500.00.

(2)For the purposes of section 131(2) of the Act, the following amounts of the levy are prescribed—

(a)in the case of a levy imposed on a lawyer under section 226 or 231(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria)—

(i)in the case of a lawyer employed by a community legal service, $110.00; or

(ii)in the case of any other lawyer, $1650.00;

(b)in the case of a levy imposed under section 129 of the Act on a community legal service or approved clerk, $1650.00.

(3)A lawyer, approved clerk or community legal service must not be required to pay levies imposed under section 226 or 231(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria), or section 129 of the Act, which in aggregate exceed—

(a)$1650.00 in any 12 month period; and

(b)$8250.00 in total.

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 33/2025 were made on 27 May 2025 by the Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's deputy, with the advice of the Executive Council, under section 156 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014, No. 17/2014 and came into operation on 9 June 2025: regulation 3.

The Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 27 May 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. 
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule.  Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3   Explanatory details

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 52/2015.