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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Restrictions on provision of legal services and conveyancing services - Practising certificates

40: Effect of application for practising certificate

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"You can keep working while waiting for your new practising certificate."

Illustration for Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

If you apply for a new practising certificate and pay the fees, you can keep working as if you already have it. This is until you get the new certificate or a letter saying your application was refused. You must be allowed to have the certificate under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006. You can find more information by looking at the related law. This rule helps you keep working while you wait for your new certificate.

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Part 2Restrictions on provision of legal services and conveyancing services
Practising certificates

40Effect of application for practising certificate

  1. If a person who holds a practising certificate applies for a practising certificate for a further period and pays the prescribed fees and levies, and is otherwise entitled under this Act to the issue of the practising certificate applied for, that person is, until the certificate applied for is received by that person, or that person receives written notice that his or her application for a practising certificate has been refused, whichever first occurs, to be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if that person were the holder of the practising certificate applied for.

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