Forms
Commissioner forms
- Complaint form (147KB PDF)
Please note:
- If you are sending a complaint form to our office via email, we can only receive attachments less than 10MB in size in total.
- We will confirm your email has been received within 5 business days. If you have not received an acknowledgement from our office after this time, please contact us directly.
Practising certificates: Application/variation and renewal
Note: all applications for and variations of practising certificates must now be made via LSB Online
- Practising certificate renewal for 2018-19 year – Notes (79KB PDF)
- Application/Variation of Practising Certificate – Notes (85KB PDF)
- Notification of change of information – Local legal practitioner Note: This form must now be completed through LSB Online
- Application for grant or renewal of registration as foreign lawyer – Locally-registered foreign lawyer (120KB PDF)
- Notification of change of information – Locally registered foreign lawyer (89KB PDF)
- Statutory declaration for exemption from supervised legal practice (37KB DOC)
- Removal of supervised legal practice condition – Template statutory declaration and template supervisor’s letter (40KB DOC)
Notice of show cause event
- Notice of show cause event – local legal practitioner and locally registered foreign lawyer (98KB PDF)
Professional indemnity insurance exemptions
- Template exemption undertaking for PII (33KB DOC)
Law practices
Application/notification forms
- Notification of new law practice (Not ILP or ULP) (109KB PDF)
- Notice of intention to start providing legal services – corporation (ILP) (104KB PDF)
- Notice of intention to start providing legal services – unincorporated legal practice (ULP) (104KB PDF)
Change/termination forms
- Notification of change information- law practice (112KB PDF)
- Notice of termination of provision of legal services – law practice (not ILP) (78KB PDF)
- Notice of termination of provision of legal services – corporation (ILP) (80KB PDF)
Trust account forms
Trust account records
- Record of Controlled money movements (66KB PDF)
- Record of Controlled Money movements, other than by EFT (64KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 3 External Examiners (101KB PDF)
- Record of Investment Money (13KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 8 Notification of Trust Account details (223KB PDF)
See also
- Fact sheet – Opening a Trust Account (216KB PDF)
- Fact sheet – Closing a Trust Account (257KB PDF)
End of year audit reporting
Please note: Paper forms are no longer available. Please submit end of year audit reporting forms using LSB Online.
For further information, download the fact sheet: End of trust account audit year 2018 – Law practices and approved clerks (293KB PDF)
User Guide
Final audit forms
Statutory deposit account forms
- Application for exemption from further deposit of $15,000 or less (76KB PDF)
- Authorisation to operate SDA (non-legal practitioner) Form (95KB PDF)
- Authorisation to operate SDA (legal practitioner) Form (86KB PDF)
- Direct Debit Request Form (69KB PDF)
- Notification of persons no longer authorised to operate SDA (81KB PDF)
- SDA quarterly deposit exemption application form (insufficient funds) (80KB PDF) Note: This form can be completed through LSB Online
Last modified March 28, 2018.