Legal Profession Amendment Act 2008

Legal Profession Amendment Act 2008

An Act to amend the Legal Profession Act 2007

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1.   Short title

This Act may be cited as the Legal Profession Amendment Act 2008 .

2.   Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3.   Principal Act

In this Act, the Legal Profession Act 2007 is referred to as the Principal Act.

4.    Schedule 9 amended (Savings and transitional provisions)

Clause 6 of Schedule 9 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting subclauses (1) and (2) and substituting the following subclauses:

(1) A practising certificate in force under the old Act immediately before the commencement of Part 2.3 of this Act –

(a) is, on that commencement, taken to be in force under this Act; and

(b) subject to the payment of the prescribed fee when and as duly demanded by the Law Society after that commencement, continues in force until midnight of 30 June immediately following that commencement.

(2) For the purposes of subclause (1) , the prescribed fee is one half of the fee that would have been payable for the issue of the practising certificate had the old Act not been repealed.

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 18 NOVEMBER 2008

Legislative Council on 19 NOVEMBER 2008]