Legal Profession Bill
Table of Contents
Long Title
Enacting Formula
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title and commencement
2 Interpretation
Part II ADMISSION OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
Board of Legal Education
3 Establishment of Board of Legal Education
4 Purposes of the Board
5 General powers of the Board
6 Constitution of the Board
7 Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Secretary
8 Meetings of the Board
Qualified Persons
9 Admission of advocates and solicitors
10 Qualifications for admission
11 Periods of pupillage
12 Service of pupillage
13 Admission of Malayan practitioners
14 Petitions for admission under sections 10 and 13 (1)
15 Petitions for admission under section 13 (2)
16 Service of documents and objections
17 Caveats and misrepresentations
18 Ad hoc admissions
Articled Clerks
19 Qualifications for entry into articles
20 Restrictions on taking of articled clerks
21 Moral unfitness of articled clerk
22 Discharge of articles on application by principal or articled clerk
23 Period of articles
24 Qualifications for admission of articled clerks
25 Petitions for admission by articled clerks
Reviews
26 Review of Board’s decisions
Hearing of Petitions and the Roll
27 Hearing
28 Declaration, duty and the Roll
Part III PRACTISING CERTIFICATES
29 Practising certificates
30 Disqualification for practising certificate
31 Register of practitioners
32 Annual certificates
33 Discretion of the Society with respect to the issue of annual certificates in special cases
34 Application to a judge
Part IV PRIVILEGES OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
35 Privileges of advocates and solicitors
36 Qualifications to practise
37 Unauthorised person acting as advocate or solicitor
38 Qualifications to section 37
39 Drawer’s name and address to be endorsed on instrument
40 No costs recoverable by unauthorised person
Part V SINGAPORE ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS SOCIETY
41 Establishment of Society
42 Purposes and powers of the Society
43 Visitors
Members of the Society and Subscriptions
44 Membership
45 Practising solicitors to be members
46 Non-practitioner members
47 Honorary members
48 Privileges of membership
49 Expulsion and suspension of rights and privileges
50 Termination of qualification
51 Annual subscription to Society
The Council
52 The Council
53 Statutory members
54 Elected members
Election of members of Council
55 Persons entitled to vote
56 Elections
57 Nominations
58 Insufficient nominations
59 Council’s term of office
60 Casual vacancies
Officers
61 President and Vice-President
62 When members of Council to vacate office
Powers of the Council
63 General powers of the Council
64 Specific powers of the Council
65 Appointment of committees of the Council
66 Power of the Council to inspect files of proceedings in bankruptcy of solicitor
67 Power of the Council to accept gifts
68 Representation in Court
Proceedings of the Council
69 Meetings of the Council
70 Expenses of members
General meetings of the Society
71 Annual general meeting
72 Extraordinary general meetings
73 Voting
74 Convening and procedure
Part VI PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE OF SOLICITORS AND CLERKS
75 Rules as to professional practice, etiquette, conduct and discipline
76 Rules as to keeping of accounts by solicitors
77 Accountant’s report
78 Compensation fund
79 Solicitors who are commissioners for oaths or notaries public
80 Solicitor not to act as agent for any unauthorised person
81 Solicitors’ clerks
82 Acting for housing developer and purchase prohibited
83 Prohibition of practice under certain names
84 Account by solicitor
85 Interim certificate
Part VII DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS
86 Jurisdiction of High Court over solicitors
87 Power to strike off the Roll or suspend or censure
88 Appointment of Inquiry Committee
89 Applications and complaints
90 Investigation
91 Council’s consideration of report
92 Council’s power to order penalty
93 Application to appoint a Disciplinary Committee
Disciplinary Committee
94 Appointment of Disciplinary Committee
95 Proceedings and powers of Disciplinary Committee
96 Findings of Disciplinary Committee
97 Society to apply to court
98 Disciplinary Committee’s power to order penalty
99 Provisions as to penalties
100 Procedure for complainants dissatisfied with the Council’s decision
101 Procedure for complainants dissatisfied with a Disciplinary Committee’s decision
102 Order to show cause
103 Drawing up of order
104 Solicitor’s application to remove own name
105 Adverse orders to be noted on Roll
106 Replacement on Roll of solicitor who has been struck off
107 Costs
108 Absence of person concerned
109 Provisions as to evidence
110 No action in absence of bad faith
Part VIII REMUNERATION OF SOLICITORS
111 Prohibition of certain stipulations
112 Orders as to remuneration of solicitors for non-contentious business
113 Agreements with respect to remuneration for non-contentious business
114 Remuneration of a solicitor who is a mortgagee
Contentious Business
115 Agreement as to costs for contentious business
116 Effect of agreements with respect to contentious business
117 Enforcement of agreement
118 Death or incapability of solicitor after agreement
119 Change of solicitor after agreement
Part IX RECOVERY AND TAXATION OF COSTS
120 Definition of solicitor in this Part
121 Charging orders
122 Solicitor not to commence actions for fees until one month after delivery of bills
123 Court may authorise action for recovery of fees before expiration of one month after delivery of bills
124 Order for taxation of delivered bill of costs
125 Costs of order for taxation fixed at twenty-five dollars
126 Time limits for taxation of bills of costs
127 Petitions for taxation to contain a submission to pay
128 Order for delivery of bill of costs to be obtained as of course
129 Solicitor to deliver copy of bill of costs
130 Preparation of bills as between solicitor and client
131 Interest in respect of disbursements and advances
132 Costs of taxation how to be borne
133 Costs of the Government
Part X MISCELLANEOUS
134 General provision as to rules
135 Offices of the Board and the Society
136 Service of documents
137 Recovery of moneys by Society
138 Rules Committee to prescribe duties
139 Relief to banks
140 Estate duty and tax exemptions
Part XI TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
141 Interpretation and effect of this Part
142 Nomination of members of the Board
143 Transfer of names to Roll
144 Pending petitions for admission
145 Practising certificates
146 First election to the Council
147 Temporary statutory members
148 Terms of office of the first Council and members
149 Vesting of property in Society
150 Annual general meeting for 1967
151 Pending disciplinary matters
152 Temporary provision as to appointment of Inquiry Committee
153 Managing clerks—preservation of rights
Part XII REPEAL
154 Repeal
Explanatory Statement
Expenditure of Public Money
Table of Derivations