Legal Profession Act 2006

In this Part:

Australia includes the external Territories.

Australian law means law of the Commonwealth or of a jurisdiction.

foreign law means law of a foreign country.

foreign law practice means a partnership or corporate entity that is entitled to engage in legal practice in a foreign country.

foreign registration authority means an entity in a foreign country having the function, conferred by the law of the foreign country, of registering persons to engage in legal practice in the country.

local registration certificate means a registration certificate given under this Part.

overseas-registered foreign lawyer means an individual who is properly registered to engage in legal practice in a foreign country by the foreign registration authority for the country.

practise foreign law means doing work, or transacting business, in this jurisdiction concerning foreign law, being work or business of a kind that, if it concerned the law of this jurisdiction, would ordinarily be done or transacted by an Australian legal practitioner.

registered, when used in connection with a foreign country, means having all necessary licences, approvals, admissions, certificates or other forms of authorisation (including practising certificates) required by or under legislation for engaging in legal practice in the country.