Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) This section
applies if a person engages a multi-disciplinary partnership to provide
services that the person might reasonably assume to be legal services.
(2) Each legal
practitioner partner of the multi-disciplinary partnership, and any employee
of the partnership who is an Australian legal practitioner and who provides
the services on behalf of the practice, must ensure that a disclosure,
complying with the requirements of this section and the regulations made for
the purposes of this section, is made to the person in connection with the
provision of the services.
Penalty: a fine of $10 000.
(3) The disclosure
must be made by giving the person a notice in writing —
(a)
setting out the services to be provided; and
(b)
stating whether or not all the legal services to be provided will be provided
by an Australian legal practitioner; and
(c) if
some or all of the legal services will not be provided by an Australian legal
practitioner — identifying those services and indicating the status
or qualifications of the person or persons who will provide the services; and
(d)
stating that this Act applies to the provision of legal services but not to
the provision of the non-legal services.
(4) The regulations
may make provision for or with respect to the following matters —
(a) the
manner in which disclosure is to be made;
(b)
additional matters required to be disclosed in connection with the provision
of legal services or non-legal services by a multi-disciplinary partnership.
(5) Without limiting
subsection (4), the additional matters may include the kind of services
provided by the multi-disciplinary partnership and whether those services are
or are not covered by the insurance or other provisions of this Act.
(6) A disclosure under
this section to a person about the provision of legal services may relate to
the provision of legal services on one occasion or on more than one occasion
or on an on-going basis.