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LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATIONS 2018 (S.R. 2018, NO. 66) - REG 61

Law practice closing down, closing office or ceasing to receive or hold trust money

(1)  In this regulation –
law practice includes a former law practice and the persons who were principals of a law practice immediately before the law practice ceased to exist as a law practice or to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction.
(2)  A law practice that holds trust money must give the prescribed authority at least 14 days' written notice of its intention –
(a) to cease to exist as a law practice; or
(b) to cease to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction; or
(c) to cease to practise in such a way as to receive or hold trust money.
(3)  Within 14 days of ceasing to hold trust money, a law practice that holds trust money must give the prescribed authority –
(a) written notice of that fact; and
(b) if the practice has not given a notice under subregulation (2) within the previous 28 days, a notice that complies with that subregulation.
(4)  A notice under this regulation must include particulars sufficient to identify –
(a) a law practice's general trust accounts and controlled money accounts; and
(b) trust money controlled by the practice (or by an associate) pursuant to a power; and
(c) trust money invested by the practice.



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