Legal Profession Act 1976 · Updated to 1 Aug 2018 · Part V · Malaysian Bar
68. Combined Bar — State Bar Committee
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“combined Bar” means a State Bar which combines all the members in any two or more States and recognized as such under section 69.
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“Malaysian Bar” and “Bar” means the body corporate established under section 41;
For the purposes of this Part, a member of the State Bar is deemed to be practising in a State if he ordinarily practises in that State.
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The opinion of the State Bar Committee shall be prima facie evidence that the member ordinarily practises in the State.
A member may ordinarily practise in more than one State and all members practising in the Federal Territory shall be deemed to be members of the Selangor State Bar.
Members practising in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur shall be entitled to establish a separate bar for the Federal Territory of
Kuala Lumpur to be known as the Kuala Lumpur Bar. The decision to have a separate bar shall be made by a majority vote of the members present at a general meeting called for this purpose.
At the time of establishment of the Kuala Lumpur Bar any member who had paid the annual subscription for that calendar year to the Selangor State Bar Committee shall not be required to pay a second annual subscription for the same year to the Kuala Lumpur Bar
Committee.
The assets of the Selangor State Bar, which is commonly known as the Selangor and Federal Territory Bar, shall, upon establishment of the Kuala Lumpur Bar, be apportioned between the
Selangor State Bar and the Kuala Lumpur Bar in the proportions that their respective memberships bear to the membership of the former combined Bar.