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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 53

53 Conditions imposed by law society or bar association

(1) At the time a regulatory authority grants a local practising certificate, the authority may impose any reasonable and relevant condition on the practising certificate.

(2) A condition may be about any of the following--

(a) requiring the certificate holder to undertake or complete--
(i) continuing legal education; or
(ii) stated legal education or training;
(b) limiting the certificate holder to supervised legal practice in the way stated in the condition or to the practice of areas of law stated in the condition;
(c) controlling, restricting or prohibiting the operation of a trust account;
(d) restricting the certificate holder to particular conditions concerning employment or supervision;
(e) a matter agreed to by the certificate holder.

(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the matters about which a condition may be imposed under this section.

(4) The regulatory authority must not impose a condition requiring the certificate holder to undertake and complete stated legal education or training unless--

(a) the regulatory authority is satisfied that it is reasonable to require the stated legal education or training to be undertaken, having regard to--
(i) when the holder undertook his or her previous academic studies or legal training, or obtained the previous legal experience; or
(ii) the certificate holder's conduct; or
(b) the condition is 1 that is imposed generally on certificates holders or a class of certificates holders.

(5) A regulatory authority's power to impose a condition mentioned in subsection (2)(a) is not limited by, and does not limit, the regulatory authority's power to impose a condition under its administration rules about a matter mentioned in section 231(2)(e).



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