Clause 2

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Academy” in subsection (1), the following definition:“ “active practice” does not include practice as a locum solicitor;”;

by deleting the words “or a law corporation’s” in paragraph (a) of the definition of “client” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “, a law corporation’s or a limited liability law partnership’s”;

by deleting paragraph (b) of the definition of “client” in subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(b)in relation to non-contentious business —

any person who, as a principal or on behalf of another, or as a trustee, an executor or an administrator, or in any other capacity, has power, express or implied, to retain or employ, and retains or employs or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, a law corporation or a limited liability law partnership; and (ii)any person for the time being liable to pay a solicitor, a law corporation or a limited liability law partnership for his or its services any costs;”;

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “legal officer” in subsection (1), the following definition:“ “limited liability law partnership” means a limited liability partnership approved as a limited liability law partnership under section 81Q;”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “law corporations” in the definition of “locum solicitor” in subsection (1), the words “, limited liability law partnerships”;

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) References to an employee of a solicitor or law firm or law corporation or limited liability law partnership shall be construed to include a locum solicitor engaged by the solicitor or law firm or law corporation or limited liability law partnership, as the case may be, and references to being employed by a solicitor or law firm or law corporation or limited liability law partnership shall be construed accordingly, in the following provisions:

sections 78, 81D, 81E, 81F, 81H, 81S, 81T and 81U;

the definition of “specified person” in section 79(2);

paragraphs 1(1)(a)(ii), 5(1)(d) and 8A(1)(d) of the First Schedule; and

the Second Schedule.”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(6) Unless it is expressly provided to the contrary —

references to a partnership in this Act; or

references to a law firm or firm in this Act, except in Part IXA,shall not include a reference to a limited liability partnership.”.