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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4224 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

Secondly, the amendment of section 39 of the Legal Practitioners Act by the Remuneration Tribunal (Consequential Amendments) Act has inadvertently removed subsection 39(3) of the Legal Practitioners Act, which provided for payment of members of the Professional Conduct Board to be made by the Law Society out of moneys standing to the credit of the statutory interest account. To continue to provide authority for the Law Society to make payments to members of the board from that account, a provision based on the former subsection 39(3) of the Legal Practitioners Act is inserted into the Act. In order that continuity be maintained, this provision is deemed to take effect from 23 September 1997.

Amendments agreed to.

Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Debate resumed from 23 September 1997, on motion by Mr Humphries:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

Amendments (by Mr Humphries, by leave) agreed to:

Page 6, line 13, Schedule 1, omit the amendments of the Coroners Act 1956, substitute the following amendment of the Coroners Act 1997:

Subsection 3(1) (definition of `legal practitioner') -

Omit the definition.".

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