Legal Profession Act 2006

(1) A complying community legal centre does not contravene this Act merely because:

(a) it employs, or otherwise uses the services of, Australian legal practitioners to provide legal services to members of the public; or

(b) it has a contractual relationship with a member of the public to whom the legal services are provided or receives any fee, gain or reward for providing the legal services; or

(c) it shares with an Australian legal practitioner employed or otherwise used by it to provide the legal services receipts, revenue or other income arising from the business of the centre of a kind usually conducted by an Australian legal practitioner; or

(d) it adopts or uses the word "legal" or a name, title or description to which section 20 applies (or a related term) in its name or any registered business name under which it provides legal services to members of the public.

(2) Subsection (1) has effect despite anything to the contrary in this Act.

(a) the application (with any modifications prescribed by the regulations) of a provision of this Act to a complying community legal centre; and

(b) the legal services provided by a complying community legal centre.

(4) The regulations may provide that a breach of the regulations is capable of being unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct by an Australian legal practitioner responsible for the breach.

(5) A provision of the legal profession rules that applies to an Australian legal practitioner also applies to an Australian legal practitioner who is an officer or employee of, or whose services are used by, a complying community legal centre, unless the rules otherwise provide.