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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 746

Pending hearings and inquiries

    (1)     This section applies if:

        (a)     before the commencement date:

            (i)     an appeal was lodged under section 49 of the repealed Act; or

            (ii)     a charge was laid under section 50 of the repealed Act; and

        (b)     immediately before the commencement date, the Legal Practitioners Complaints Committee had not completed its hearing into the appeal or inquiry into the charge.

    (2)     The appeal or charge must be completed under the repealed Act as if it had not been repealed.

    (3)     For this section, the Committee constituted under the repealed Act for the appeal or inquiry continues in existence.

    (4)     The decision of the Committee on the hearing or charge may be enforced as if it were an order of the Disciplinary Tribunal.

    (5)     If a person would have been entitled to appeal against the decision under section 51B of the repealed Act had that Act not been repealed, the person may appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision under section 533 as if it were a decision of the Tribunal to make an order under section 525.



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