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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Intervention in practice

170: Power in relation to postal articles and email communications

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"Getting notices to hand over emails or mail"

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You can get a notice from a Standards Committee. This notice can ask you to give them postal articles or emails. The notice must be signed by two members of the Standards Committee. You might get a notice if you are a practitioner or a former practitioner. The notice can also be sent to people who help with mail or emails. You have to follow the instructions in the notice. The Standards Committee can ask for emails from your Internet service provider. They can also ask for postal articles from a postal operator. You must comply with the notice when you get it.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Intervention in practice

170Power in relation to postal articles and email communications

  1. For the purposes of section 169, a Standards Committee may serve—

  2. on the practitioner or former practitioner or any related person or entity a notice requiring the practitioner or former practitioner or related person or entity to deliver to the Standards Committee all postal articles received at the practitioner's or former practitioner's office address by the practitioner or former practitioner or any related person or entity:
    1. on any postal operator or on any person in charge of a mail distribution centre operated by or on behalf of a postal operator or on both a notice requiring the postal operator or person or both to cause to be delivered to the Standards Committee all postal articles addressed to the practitioner or former practitioner at the practitioner's or former practitioner's office address:
      1. on any Internet service provider a notice requiring the Internet service provider to cause to be delivered to the Standards Committee exact copies of all emails addressed to the practitioner at any email address used at any time by the practitioner or former practitioner for business purposes.

        1. Every person who is served with a notice under subsection (1) must comply with that notice.

        2. The notice must be signed by 2 of the members of the Standards Committee.

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