Legal Services Amendment (Removal of External Legal Service Provider Reporting Requirements) Direction 2016

I, George Brandis QC, Attorney‑General, make the following direction.

Dated 3 March 2016

George Brandis QC

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Legal Services Directions 2005

1  Name

  This is the Legal Services Amendment (Removal of External Legal Service Provider Reporting Requirements) Direction 2016.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Judiciary Act 1903.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Legal Services Directions 2005

1  Paragraphs 6 and 7 of Appendix F to the Schedule

Repeal the paragraphs.

2  At the end of Appendix F to the Schedule

Add:

10  Application

  The amendments made by item 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Services Amendment (Removal of External Legal Service Provider Reporting Requirements) Direction 2016 (the amending direction) apply in respect of Commonwealth legal work undertaken on or after the day the amending direction commences, regardless of whether the work began before that day.