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LAW OF MALAYSIA
ACT 166
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1976
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Section
- Short title and commencement
- Application
- Interpretation
PART II
QUALIFYING BOARD
Section
- Qualifying Board
- Functions of Board
- General power of Board and power to make rules
- Membership of Board
- Election of acting Chairman
- Meetings of Board and quorum
- Admission of advocates and solicitors
- Qualifications for admission
- Period of pupillage of qualified person
- Exemption from period and qualification for pupillage
- Filing of admission petition and enquiries, etc.
- Petition for admission with affidavit
- Filing of petition and objection
- Entering of caveat against admission
- Admission in special cases
- Right of appeal by objectors
- Qualification for articled clerks
- Conditions to be a principal and discharge of clerk
- Discharge of clerk for unfitness
- Discharge of clerk generally
- Period of articles and condition of articles
- Condition of admission of articled clerk
- Appeal from the decision of Board to Judge
- Hearing by Judge, a member of Board
- Roll of advocates and solicitors
PART IIA
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO ADMISSION OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
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A. |
Attorney General's power
to issue Special Admission Certificates |
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B. |
Admission and enrollment
as an advocate and solicitor of a person issued with a Special Admission
Certificate |
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C. |
Provisions as to Sijil Annual
not to apply to an advocate and solicitor admitted under this Part |
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D. |
Power of Attorney General
to make orders |
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E. |
Provisions of this part
to prevail |
PART III
PRACTISING CERTIFICATES
- Advocate and solicitor to make declaration yearly
- Disqualification for practising certificate
- Register of Practitioners
- Issue of Sijil Annual
- Issue of Sijil Annual in certain conditions
- Applicant to apply to Court
PART IV
PRIVILEGES OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
- Right of Advocate and Solicitor
- Advocate and solicitor to have name on the Roll before practice
- No unauthorized person to act as advocate and solicitor
- Certain persons can act as advocate and solicitor
- Instrument and document to be endorsed
- No cost payable to unauthorized person
PART V
MALAYSIAN BAR
- Establishment of Malaysia Bar
- Object and powers of the Bar
- Advocate and solicitors members of the Bar
- Eligibility of a member
- Disqualification of a member
- Annual subscription
- Disqualification for membership of the Bar Council, a Bar Committee,
or of any committee thereof
- Establishment of Bar Council
- Period of holding office
- Election of Bar Council members
- Annual Election of Bar Council
- When election deemed to be election
- Bar Council when constituted
- Casual vacancy to be filled by qualified person
- President, Vice-president and Secretary of the Bar
- When a member of the Council to vacate office
- Powers and acts of Bar Council
- Specific Powers of the Bar Council
- Appointment of Committees
- Rights to inspect file and copies of proceedings in Bankruptcy
- Power of Bar Council to accept gifts
- Representative in court
- Meeting of the Council
- Expenses of Members
- Annual General Meetings
- General Meeting
- Voting
- Quorum
- Combined Bar - State Bar Committee
- Combination of members as State Bar
- Annual General Meeting of State Bar
- General meeting of State Bar
- Severance of combined Bar
- Meeting of the State Bar Committee
- Powers of the State Bar Committee
- Fees not allowed to State Bar Committee
- Casual vacancy
- Names of Council and Committee members to be published in the Gazette
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