Examples of Australian practising certificate in a sentence
Publicising disciplinary action taken because of injury, infirmity or illness This clause provides that if relevant disciplinary action (including the suspension or cancellation of the person's Australian practising certificate, a refusal to grant or review such a certificate or a restriction of prohibition on the person's right to engage in legal practice) is taken against a person because of the person's injury, infirmity or physical or mental illness, that action may be recorded in the register.
The register must also state the conditions (if any) imposed on an Australian practising certificate in relation to engaging in legal practice and other prescribed particulars.
Admission alone does not entitle an Australian lawyer to engage in legal practice but is a prerequisite to apply for an Australian practising certificate which entitles practise as an Australian legal practitioner.
If the Chief Executive Officer does not hold a current Australian practising certificate, a reference in subsection (2) to the Chief Executive Officer is to be read as a reference to the relevant member of staff appointed for the time being under section 23A.
It is a statutory condition of an Australian practising certificate that the holder must comply with the applicable requirements of the Continuing Professional Development Rules.
If the Board refuses to grant or renew an Australian practising certificate under section 44(1), or renews a certificate subject to a condition to which the applicant does not agree, then the Board must give the applicant a notice stating the matters required in section 464(1) of the Law (namely, the decision, the reasons for the decision and the rights of appeal or review available to the person in respect of the decision and the applicable time period within which the appeal or review must be commenced).
In certain circumstances, the Board is taken to have refused to grant or renew an Australian practising certificate.
Back to top Commentary Section 24(1) requires all Commission staff practising as legal practitioners, to hold a current Australian practising certificate.
An Australian lawyer is not eligible to apply for the grant or renewal of a local practising certificate in respect of a financial year if the lawyer would also be the holder of another Australian practising certificate for that year, but this subsection does not limit the factors determining ineligibility to apply for the grant or renewal of a local practising certificate.
For the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition of supervised legal practice in section 6 (1) of the Uniform Law, supervised legal practice in the case of an Australian legal practitioner who is an employee of a law practice (or who, though not an employee of the law practice, is working under supervision in a law practice) includes supervision by an employee of the law practice who holds an Australian practising certificate authorising the holder to supervise legal practice by others.