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The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe matters required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.
The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe matters required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.
These Regulations are made under section 156 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.
These Regulations come into operation on 9 June 2025.
The Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2015[1] are revoked.
In these Regulations—
the Act means the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.
For the purposes of section 131(2) of the Act, the following amounts of the contribution to the fidelity fund are prescribed—
in the case of an annual contribution by a person under section 225 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria)—
in the case of a person employed by a community legal service, $100.00; or
in the case of any other person, $1500.00;
in the case of an annual contribution under section 128 of the Act by a community legal service or an approved clerk, $1500.00.
For the purposes of section 131(2) of the Act, the following amounts of the levy are prescribed—
in the case of a levy imposed on a lawyer under section 226 or 231(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria)—
in the case of a lawyer employed by a community legal service, $110.00; or
in the case of any other lawyer, $1650.00;
in the case of a levy imposed under section 129 of the Act on a community legal service or approved clerk, $1650.00.
A lawyer, approved clerk or community legal service must not be required to pay levies imposed under section 226 or 231(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria), or section 129 of the Act, which in aggregate exceed—
$1650.00 in any 12 month period; and
$8250.00 in total.
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