Permitted methods of advertising
291 Permitted methods of advertising
(1) A statement under section 290 must be published in one of the following ways:
publication in an edition of a newspaper;
(b) publication on the Internet of an electronic version of an edition of a newspaper if:
(i) the statement is reproduced as published in the hard copy edition of the newspaper; and
(ii) the newspaper is published independently of the legal practitioner;
(c) publication on the Internet as part of the contents of a directory or database that is published or maintained independently of the legal practitioner;
(d) public exhibition of the statement in, on, over or under a building, vehicle or place or in the air in view of a person on a public place other than exhibition of the statement in or on a hospital;
(e) display of the statement on a printed document gratuitously sent or delivered to anyone or thrown or left on a vehicle or on premises occupied by anyone, other than display on a printed document gratuitously sent or delivered to a hospital, left in a hospital or left on a vehicle in the vicinity of a hospital;
(f) display of the statement on a printed document given to a person as a receipt or record for a transaction.
(2) For subsection (1)(b), an edition of a newspaper, or a directory or database published on the Internet, is published or maintained independently of a legal practitioner only if:
(a) it is not published or maintained by the legal practitioner, another legal practitioner in the same law practice as the legal practitioner or an employee employed or engaged by the legal practitioner or law practice; and
(b) it is published or maintained by a person in the ordinary course of conducting the person's business or affairs.
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