Legal Profession Act 1976 · Updated to 1 Aug 2018 · Part III · Practising Certificates
29. Advocate and solicitor to make declaration yearly
Feedback & supportEvery advocate and solicitor shall in each year before he does any act in the capacity of an advocate and solicitor deliver or cause to be delivered to the Registrar:
advocate and solicitor
“advocate and solicitor” includes the executors, administrators and assignees of the advocate and solicitor in question. Legal Profession 141 Advocate and solicitor entitled to charge on property for costs
a declaration in writing stating—
his full name;
the name under which he practises or the name of the advocates and solicitors or firm of advocates and solicitors employing him; and
the principal and any other address or addresses at which he practises in Malaysia;
the last Sijil Annual or a true copy thereof, if any, issued to him by the Bar Council; and
the prescribed fee, and the Registrar shall on being satisfied that all the necessary documents are in order and that the firm name under which the advocate and solicitor is practising is on the register maintained under subsection 85(1) issue to the advocate and solicitor a practising certificate.
Subject to subsection (3), every practising certificate shall be signed by the Registrar and shall be valid from the date of issue to the end of the year:
practising certificate
“practising certificate” means a certificate issued by the Registrar under section 29;
Provided that—
where the name of an advocate and solicitor is removed from, or struck off, the Roll the practising certificate, if any, of that advocate and solicitor shall expire forthwith and the
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date of such expiration shall be entered by the Registrar on the Register of Practitioners;
where an advocate and solicitor is adjudicated bankrupt or a receiving order is made against him, the practising certificate, if any, of that advocate and solicitor shall be suspended forthwith, until the consent of the Bar Council to reinstate it is obtained.
Where an advocate and solicitor has duly complied with subsection (1) in the month of January of any year, the practising certificate issued to him in respect of that year shall be deemed to have been in operation from 1 January of that year.
In this section the word “year” shall mean the period from 1 January in any calendar year to 31 December in the same calendar year.