Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1997 (NO. 26 OF 1997) - SECT 6

6. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended—

    (a)     by omitting from subsection (1) “A barrister and solicitor” and substituting “Subject to Part XVA, a barrister and solicitor”;

    (b)     by omitting from subsection (3) all the words after “first-mentioned” and substituting:

        “barrister and solicitor—

        (a)     holds, or is pursuant to section 30 to be deemed to hold, a current practising certificate; or

        (b)     is an interstate legal practitioner who is entitled to engage in legal practise in the Territory by virtue of section 191D.”;

        and

    (c)     by omitting from subsection (4) all the words after “solicitor” (second occurring) and substituting:

        “unless, at the time at which the work was done, he or she was—

        (a)     the holder of a current unrestricted practising certificate; or

        (b)     an interstate legal practitioner who was entitled to practise in the Territory, and to recover the costs or disbursements, by virtue of section 191D.”.