Legal Practitioners Act 1981

Before a corporation starts to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction, the corporation must give the Supreme Court written notice, in the approved form and accompanied by the prescribed fee, of its intention to do so.

A corporation must not engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction if it is in default of this clause. Maximum penalty: $50 000.

A corporation that starts to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction without giving a notice under subclause (1) is in default of this clause until it gives the Supreme Court written notice, in the approved form, of the failure to comply with that subclause and the fact that it has started to engage in legal practice.

The giving of a notice under subclause (3) does not affect a corporation's liability under subclause (1) or

.

A corporation is not entitled to recover any amount for anything the corporation did in contravention of subclause (2).

A person may recover from a corporation, as a debt due to the person, any amount the person paid to or at the direction of the corporation for anything the corporation did in contravention of subclause (2).

This clause does not apply to—

a corporation referred to in clause 1(2)(a) or

; or

a corporation that was a legal practitioner within the meaning of this Act immediately before the commencement of this clause.