Legal Profession Act 2007

An incorporated legal practice is a corporation that engages in legal practice in this jurisdiction, whether or not it also provides services that are not legal services.

However, a corporation is not an incorporated legal practice if – the corporation does not receive any form of, or have any expectation of, a fee, gain or reward for the legal services it provides; or the only legal services that the corporation provides are any or all of the following services:in-house legal services, namely, legal services provided to the corporation concerning a proceeding, or transaction to which the corporation (or a related body corporate) is a party; services that are not legally required to be provided by an Australian legal practitioner and that are provided by an officer or employee who is not an Australian legal practitioner; or the corporation is a complying community legal centre; or this Part or the regulations so provide.

The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the application (with or without specified modifications) of provisions of this Act to corporations that are not incorporated legal practices because of the operation of subsection (2).

Nothing in this Part affects or applies to the provision by an incorporated legal practice of legal services in one or more other jurisdictions.