Associate of a legal practitioner
439 Associate of a legal practitioner
(1) A reference to an associate of a legal practitioner is a reference to:
(a) a partner of the legal practitioner, whether or not the partner is a legal practitioner; or
an employee or agent of the legal practitioner; or
(c) a corporation, or a member of a corporation, partnership, syndicate or joint venture, in which the legal practitioner or a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (e) has a beneficial interest; or
a co-trustee of the legal practitioner; or
(e) a person who bears a prescribed relationship to the legal practitioner or to a person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d); or
(f) a corporation that (if the legal practitioner or a person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) were, or is, a corporation) would be, or is, a subsidiary of the legal practitioner or person as defined in the Corporations Act; or
(g) a person prescribed by the regulations as an associate of the legal practitioner.
(2) For subsection (1)(e), a person bears a prescribed relationship to a legal practitioner or other person if the relationship is that of:
a spouse; or
a de facto partner; or
(c) a child, grandchild, sibling, parent or grandparent, whether derived through paragraph (a) or (b) or otherwise; or
a kind prescribed by the regulations.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
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