Malaysia legislation
Section 39
Seksyen 39
No division of costs or profits, etc.
(a)
divide or agree to divide costs received or the profits of his business with any unqualified person;
(b)
pay, give, agree to pay or agree to give any commission, gratuity or valuable consideration to any unqualified person to procure or use his influence to procure or for having procured or used his influence to
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procure any legal business; or
(c)
accept or agree to accept less than the scale fees laid down by law in respect of non-contentious business carried out by him except for any special reason where no charge at all is made.
(2)
Paragraph (1)(b) does not prohibit the payment of ordinary bonuses to staff.
Prohibition to appear for party represented by another Peguam Syarie