Legal Practitioners Act 1981

approved form means a form approved by the Society;

Australia includes the external territories;

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

Australian legal practitioner means a legal practitioner who holds a current practising certificate or a current interstate practising certificate;

external territory means a Territory of the Commonwealth (not being the Australian

Capital Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory or the Northern Territory of Australia) for the government of which as a Territory provision is made by a Commonwealth Act;

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 foreign country;

information notice—see subclause (2);

local registration certificate means a registration certificate given under this Schedule;

overseas-registered foreign lawyer means a natural person 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 do work, or transact 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 that country.