Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice when not entitled
19 Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice when not entitled
(1) A person who is not an Australian legal practitioner must not represent or advertise that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice.
Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units.
A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person is a director, officer, employee or agent of a body corporate; and
(b) the person represents or advertises that the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice; and
the body corporate is not an incorporated legal practice.
Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a representation or advertisement about being entitled to engage in legal practice of a kind referred to in section 18(2).
(4) A reference in this section to a person representing or advertising that the person or a body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice includes a reference to the person doing anything that specifies or implies the person or body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice.
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