Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 - SECT 339

339 .         Levy to supplement Guarantee Fund

        (1)         In this section —

        local legal practitioner does not include a WA government lawyer.

        (2)         If the Trust is at any time of the opinion that the Guarantee Fund is likely to be insufficient to meet the ascertained or contingent liabilities to which it is subject, the Trust may make a written determination imposing on each local legal practitioner of a class specified by the Trust in the determination a levy for payment into the Guarantee Fund.

        (3)         A levy is to be of such amount as the Trust determines and may differ according to the class of the local legal practitioner.

        (4)         As soon as practicable after making a determination under subsection (2), the Trust must —

            (a)         cause notice of the determination to be published in the Gazette ; and

            (b)         give written notice of the determination to the Board and the Law Society.

        (5)         The levy is payable to the Trust, at the time and in the manner fixed by the Trust in the determination, by each local legal practitioner who is of a class specified in the determination.

        (6)         However, the Trust may in a special case extend the time for payment of a levy or part of a levy by a local legal practitioner.