Western Australian Numbered Acts

LEGAL PRACTICE ACT 2003 (NO. 64 OF 2003) - SECT 22

22 .         Continuation of articles

                If, before the expiration of an articled clerk’s term of service —

            (a)         the legal practitioner to whom the articled clerk is articled —

                  (i)         dies;

                  (ii)         is incapacitated by reason of mental disability;

                  (iii)         becomes a disqualified person; or

                  (iv)         ceases to practise in this State on his or her own account or to be a legal practitioner director;

            (b)         the Board revokes its approval of the legal practitioner to whom the articled clerk is articled; or

            (c)         for any other reason the Board gives consent,

                the clerk’s service may, subject to section 21, be continued under assignment of the articles to, or fresh articles with, another legal practitioner.