---
title: "Structure for advice on a practising certificate or licensing outcome"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/certificate-outcome-advice-structure"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a63-certificate-outcome-advice-structure"
area_id: "A63"
kind: "memo"
ai_level: "red"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A63-H20261018-5", "A63-H20261018-8"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Structure for advice on a practising certificate or licensing outcome

> Headings for a lawyer's advice to a practitioner on what a certificate or licensing authority may do, and what the practitioner should do next. The lawyer writes the advice.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/certificate-outcome-advice-structure  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Memo. An internal or advice memo.
- Practice area: [Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia, New South Wales
- AI level: Red. You write the text. The tool writes nothing into the document. Where permitted, it may check, clarify or collect data, and anything it checks or collects is verified.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia and New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use when a practitioner asks what may happen to a practising certificate, registration, or other occupational licence after a show cause event, a complaint, or a refusal, suspension or cancellation. Do not send a draft that a tool has written.

## Used for these tasks

- [Advise a practitioner on characterisation and likely outcome](https://ailawframework.com/practice/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/advise-a-practitioner-on-characterisation-and-likely-outcome.md)
- [Advise on a practising certificate or licence decision](https://ailawframework.com/practice/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/advise-on-a-practising-certificate-or-licence-decision.md)

## How AI may be used

The lawyer writes the advice; AI may only list the notices and decisions on the file and check dates and section numbers the lawyer has already chosen.

**AI may:**

- List the notices, decisions and dates already on the file
- Check a section number or date in the lawyer's draft against the source the lawyer names

**AI must not:**

- Must not draft the advice, the likely outcome, or any characterisation of the conduct
- Must not predict a finding or a sanction
- Must not prepare a statement by the practitioner

**The lawyer checks:**

- The advice names the power actually being used and the decision already made, if any
- Review or appeal time limits are taken from the notice and the current tribunal Act, not from memory
- The practitioner has a copy and knows what they must not do while a condition, suspension or show cause is open

## Authorities

- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) ss 86 to 92 (show cause procedure for variation, suspension, cancellation or refusal to renew a certificate)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s88.html)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 51 (statutory condition to notify certain events within 7 days)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s51.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/certificate-outcome-advice-structure and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*