Malaysia legislation
Section 13
Section 13
Section 9 of the Ordinance is amended—
(a)
by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1);
(b)
by substituting for the words “thirty-first” in the proviso to the renumbered subsection (1) the word “31st”; and
(c)
by inserting after the renumbered subsection (1) the following subsections:
“(2) Every advocate shall in each year before he does any act in the capacity of an advocate deliver or cause to be delivered to the Registrar—
(a)
a declaration in writing stating—
(i)
his full name;
(ii)
the name under which he practises or the name of the advocates or the firm of advocates employing him;
(iii)
the principal and any other address at which he practises in Sabah; and
(iv)
that he has not contravened the
Advocates’ Remuneration Rules 1988
[G.N.S. 17 of 1988]; and
(b)
the last Annual Certificate or a true copy of the Certificate, if any, issued to him by the
Law Society, and the Registrar shall on being satisfied that all the necessary documents are in order and that the firm’s name under which the advocate is practising is on the register maintained under subsection 7f(1), issue the advocate a certificate to practise.
(3)
Subject to subsection (5), every certificate to practise shall be signed by the Registrar and shall be valid from the date of issue to the end of the year in which the same is issued.
(4)
Notwithstanding subsection (3), where—
(a)
the name of an advocate is removed from, or struck off, the roll, the certificate to practise, if any, of that advocate shall expire forthwith and the date of such expiration shall be entered by the Registrar on the Register of
Advocates;
(b)
an advocate is adjudicated a bankrupt or a receiving order is made against him, the certificate to practise, if any, of that advocate shall be suspended forthwith until the consent of the Law Society to reinstate it is obtained.
(5)
Where an advocate has duly complied with subsection (1)
in the month of January of any year, the certificate to practise issued to him in respect of that year shall be deemed to have been in operation from the 1st day of January in that year.
(6)
In this section, “year” means the period from 1 January in any calendar year to 31 December in the same calendar year.”.
Advocates Ordinance (Sabah) (Amendment)
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New sections 9a and 9b