Local legal practitioners are subject to interstate regulatory authorities
90AF Local legal practitioners are subject to interstate regulatory authorities
A local legal practitioner practising in this State must comply with any condition in respect of his or her legal practice imposed by a regulatory authority in a participating State as a result of disciplinary action against the practitioner.
A contravention of or non-compliance with this section is professional misconduct.
A regulatory authority in a participating State that has the appropriate jurisdiction under the corresponding law of that State may suspend, cancel, vary the conditions of, or impose conditions or further conditions on, a local legal practitioner's practising certificate as a result of disciplinary action against the practitioner in that State, or may make an order for such suspension, cancellation, variation or imposition.
A regulatory authority in this State must comply with an order of a regulatory authority in a participating State under subsection (3).
A regulatory authority in a participating State that has jurisdiction to order the removal of the name of a person from the roll kept in that State that corresponds to the roll of practitioners in the Supreme Court in this State may order that the name of the local legal practitioner be removed from the roll in this State.
If an order is made in relation to a local legal practitioner under subsection (5), the Supreme Court will remove the local legal practitioner's name from the roll in this
State.
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