Legal Services Board
Forms
Please select and download the appropriate form below.
Please note each form download includes accompanying notes explaining when or how to fill out the form.
Local legal practitioners
- Application/Variation of Practising Certificate form (72KB PDF)
- Application/Variation of Practising Certificate notes (75KB PDF)
- Notification of change of information – Local legal practitioner (80KB PDF)
- Notice of show cause event – local legal practitioner and locally registered foreign lawyer (92KB PDF)
Locally-registered foreign lawyers
- Application for grant or renewal of registration as foreign lawyer (97KB PDF)
- Notification of change of information – Locally registered foreign lawyer (50KB PDF)
- Notice of show cause event – local legal practitioner and locally registered foreign lawyer (92KB PDF)
Interstate legal practitioners
- Notification by interstate legal practitioner authorised to withdraw trust money from a local trust account (61 KB PDF).
Law practices
- Application/notification forms
- Notification of new law practice (not ILP or MDP) – form for a sole practitioner or law firm (80KB PDF)
- Notice of intention to start providing legal services – corporation (ILP) (80KB PDF)
- Notice of intention to start providing legal services as a member of a multi-disciplinary partnership (MDP) (76KB PDF)
- Incorporated Legal Practices Self-Assessment Audit Document (259KB PDF)
- Change/termination forms
- Notification of change information - law practice (84KB PDF)
- Notice of termination of provision of legal services - corporation (ILP) (76KB PDF)
Trust account forms
- FORM TRUST 1 Controlled money register (12KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 2 Controlled money register, no EFT (12KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 3 Consent to Appointment as External Examiner (41KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 4 Investment Money (12KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 5 Statement of trust money – clerks (68KB Word)
- FORM TRUST 5 Statement of trust money – law practice (91KB Word)
- FORM TRUST 6 Annual report of Trust records examination - approved clerk (84KB Word)
- FORM TRUST 6 Approved external examiner's report - Law Practice (59KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 7 Approved external examiner's report - when a law practice ceases (59KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST 8 Notification of Trust Account details (opening, closing and changing details) including appointment and termination of AEE (84KB PDF)
- FORM TRUST B1 Statutory Declaration on ceasing to hold trust money - law practice (96KB PDF)
- Statutory Declaration if Trust Money not held - law practice (96KB PDF)
- Policy – Application By External Auditors For Exemption From Requirement To Have Examined Trust Records (27KB PDF)
- Consent form to Disclosure to the Board of Information held by LSC (12KB PDF)
- Trust Account Regulations Exemptions Policy (40KB PDF)
- Information sheet - Transferring funds from your Statutory Deposit Account to your Trust Account (22KB PDF)
Statutory deposit account forms
- Download the SDA quarterly deposit exemption application form (46KB PDF)
- Download the SDA enduring exemption application for further deposit of $15,000 or less (76KB PDF)
- Download the SDA exemption policy (26KB PDF)
Where to send completed forms
Your application for a practising certificate must be sent to:
the Victorian Bar if you are intending to practise solely as a barrister, or
the Law Institute of Victoria for all other legal practitioners.
All other completed forms must be sent to the Legal Services Board at 10/330 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000.
See further information about which bodies perform functions under the Legal Profession Act 2004.