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Legal Practitioners

PART VII

RULES

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72. Power of Chief Justice to make rules

The Chief Justice may make rules-

(a) in relation to the admission of solicitors and of barristers and the

registration of notaries public-

(i) regulating the manner in which applications for admission under sections 3, 27 and 27A shall be made and the forms to be employed in respect thereof; (Amended 46 of 1989 s. 15) (ii) regulating the procedure and constitution of the Court at the hearing of applications under sections 3, 27 and 27A; (Amended 46 of 1989 s. 15)

(iii) regulating the manner in which applications for registra- tion under section 40 shall be made and the forms to be employed in respect thereof;

(iv) exempting, in any particular case, a person seeking admission under section 3 or 27 or registration under sec- tion 40 from compliance with all or any of the conditions prescribed for such admission or registration by this Ordinance, subject to such conditions as may appear necessary;

(v) providing for the duties of the Registrar in connection with

such admissions and registrations;

(vi) providing for the forms of the roll of solicitors, the roll of barristers and the register of notaries public, the mode in which they shall be kept and the contents thereof;

(vii) prescribing any fees payable in connection with such

admissions and registrations;

(viii) regulating the issue to barristers of practising certificates and the fees payable for, the conditions of issue of, the manner of applying for, the period and form of, the publication of the issue and the suspension of such practising certificates and generally in relation thereto; (Replaced 58 of 1976 s. 11) (ix) (Repealed 58 of 1976 s. 11)

(x) regulating the granting of exemption from the provisions of any of such rules and of the compliance with any terms imposed upon the grantees of such exemption and pre- scribing the form of any statutory declaration evidencing such compliance;

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