Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules 2015 (2015-240) (NSW)

Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules 2015

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Citation These Rules are designated as Admission Rules and may be cited as the Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules 2015.

2 Commencement These Rules come into operation on 1 July 2015.

3 Objective and authorising provision (1) The objective of these Rules is to provide for aspects of admission to the legal profession in participating jurisdictions including: (a) specifying the academic qualifications prerequisite and practical legal training prerequisite for admission, (b) accrediting law courses and providers of practical legal training, and (c) procedural requirements for admission to the legal profession. (2) These Rules are made by the Legal Services Council under Part 9.2 of the Uniform Law.

4 Definitions In these Rules, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires: accredit a law course or a practical legal training provider includes accrediting or reaccrediting a course or provider (whether for a specified term or on a continuing basis). application for a compliance certificate means an application made under rule 12 (1) or rule 14. Board means the person or body specified by a law of a participating jurisdiction as the designated local regulatory authority for the purposes of the Uniform Law, section 421(2)(f). domestic partner means: (a) a person who is in a registered domestic relationship with the applicant, or (b) a person to whom the applicant is not married but with whom the applicant is, or has previously been, living as a couple on a genuine domestic basis (irrespective of gender). Uniform Law means the Legal Profession Uniform Law as applied in a participating jurisdiction.