Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse laws and legal principles.
- Analyse the implications of contracts.
- Review current organisational systems to determine legal compliance.
- Identify and assess current organisation policies and procedures and implementation strategies to determine compliance with legal requirements.
- Identify aspects of organisation operations that may infringe or not meet legal obligations.
- Assess the need for and access legal advice on infringements and gaps where appropriate.
- Report and document outcomes of assessment and make recommendations for required actions to address infringements and gaps to relevant personnel.
- Circulate recommendations to affected staff for feedback and discussion.
- Modify organisational systems to promote compliance.
- Develop or modify policies, procedures and implementation strategies as appropriate based on recommendations and feedback to promote compliance with legal obligations.
- Document new or modified policies, procedures and implementation strategies.
- Communicate new or modified policies, procedures and implementation strategies within organisation.
- Implement new or modified policies, procedures and implementation strategies and monitor their effectiveness in complying with legal requirements.
- Update legal knowledge.