128   Legal practitioner to whom Part applies

(1)  This Part applies to any legal practitioner, including:

(a)  a legal practitioner who does not hold a practising certificate, and

(b)  (Repealed)

(c)  a person who was a legal practitioner when the unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct the subject of a complaint allegedly occurred but who is no longer a legal practitioner (in which case this Part applies as if the person were still a legal practitioner).

(2)  However, this Part does not apply:

(a)  to a judicial officer within the meaning of the Judicial Officers Act 1986, or

(b)  to a Justice of the High Court, or

(c)  to a judge of a court created by the Parliament of the Commonwealth,

      regardless of whether the unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct the subject of a complaint allegedly occurred before or after the person’s appointment as such a judicial officer, Justice or judge.

(3)  This Part applies to a person who is or was an interstate legal practitioner only if the person practises or practised as a barrister or solicitor and barrister in this State.

Note. This Part also applies to locally registered foreign lawyers. See section 48ZV.