Clause 24

by deleting the words “may give” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “must give”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsections:“(1A) Where the Council determines under section 87 that, while no cause of sufficient gravity exists for a formal investigation, the regulated legal practitioner should be ordered to comply with one or more remedial measures —

the Council must order the regulated legal practitioner to comply with the remedial measure or remedial measures (as the case may be); and

if a regulated legal practitioner fails, within the time specified by the Council, to comply fully with the Council’s order under paragraph (a), the Council may —

give the regulated legal practitioner a warning;

reprimand the regulated legal practitioner; or

order the regulated legal practitioner to pay a penalty of not more than $10,000.(1B) Where the Council makes a determination under section 87(1)(b)(iv) —

any action taken by the Council under subsection (1A)(b) is in addition to any action taken by the Council under subsection (1); but(b)the total amount of penalty ordered to be paid under subsections (1) and (1A)(b) must not exceed $10,000.”.