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LEGAL PRACTICE ACT 2003 (NO. 64 OF 2003) - SECT 116

116 .         Letterhead and other identifying documents

        (1)         In this section —

        "public document" includes any business letter, statement of account, invoice, business card and promotional and advertising material.

        (2)         A registered foreign lawyer may describe himself or herself and any partnership or body corporate with which the foreign lawyer is associated only in one or more of the ways designated in section 117.

        (3)         A registered foreign lawyer must indicate in any public document issued by the lawyer, the fact that the lawyer is a registered foreign lawyer and is restricted to the practice of foreign law.

        (4)         Subsection (3) is satisfied if the lawyer includes in the document the words —

            (a)         “registered foreign practitioner” or “registered foreign lawyer”; and

            (b)         “entitled to practise foreign law only”.



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