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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Conduct of practice by practitioners - Barristers and King’s Counsel

119B: Style of rank if Sovereign for time being is King

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If the Sovereign is a King, you read Queen's Counsel as King's Counsel. You use King's Counsel and KC to refer to a lawyer with this rank. This applies to parts of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act, except for certain sections like section 118C(1), and to regulations made under section 119(1).

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Barristers and King’s Counsel

119BStyle of rank if Sovereign for time being is King

  1. If the Sovereign for the time being is a King,—

  2. every reference to Queen's Counsel in a provision to which this paragraph applies is, unless the context otherwise requires, to be read as a reference to King's Counsel; and
    1. the words and abbreviation that a lawyer who holds the rank of Queen's Counsel are to use, if he or she wishes, in relation to himself or herself, are King's Counsel and KC.

      1. Subsection (1)(a) applies to—

      2. provisions in this Act (other than in subsection (1) or in section 118C(1)); and
        1. provisions in (or in any guidelines issued under) any regulations made under section 119(1).

          Notes
          • Section 119B: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 92).