Legal Profession (Admission) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 23 Dec 2022

No. S 1002

Legal Profession Act 1966

Legal Profession (Admission)
(Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 10(1) of the Legal Profession Act 1966, the Board of Directors of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, after consulting the Minister for Law and the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Rules are the Legal Profession (Admission) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 and, except for rule 3(a) and (b) and (e) to (l), come into operation on 1 January 2023.

(2) Rule 3(a) and (b) and (e) to (l) is deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.

Amendment of Second Schedule

2. In the Second Schedule to the Legal Profession (Admission) Rules 2011 (G.N. No. S 244/2011) —

(a)

in Form A(1), in paragraph 7, replace sub‑paragraph (d) with —

“(d)

have never been disqualified, in Singapore or elsewhere, from being a director, or in any way, whether directly or indirectly, being concerned in or taking part in the management of a company or foreign company (as defined in the Companies Act 1967), or from being a manager of a limited liability partnership;”;

(b)

in Form A(2), in paragraph 5, replace sub‑paragraph (d) with —

“(d)

(c)

in Form A(3), in paragraph 4, replace “section 13(1)(b)(ii) of the Act” with “section 13(1)(b)(ii) of the Act as in force immediately before 3 May 2011”;

(d)

in Form D(4) —

(i)	in paragraph 1, replace “section 13(1)(b)(ii) of the Legal Profession Act 1966” with “section 13(1)(b)(ii) of the Legal Profession Act 1966 as in force immediately before 3 May 2011”; and
(ii)	in paragraph 4(a), replace “paragraph 1” with “paragraph 2”;

(e)

in Form D(5), in paragraph 4(a), replace “paragraph 1” with “paragraph 2”; and

(f)

in Form E(1), in paragraph 7, replace sub‑paragraph (d) with —

“(d)

Miscellaneous amendments

3. In the Legal Profession (Admission) Rules 2011 —

(a)

in rule 8(7), replace “Evidence Act (Cap. 97)” with “Evidence Act 1893”;

(b)

in rule 24(3), replace “Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A)” with “Goods and Services Tax Act 1993”;

(c)

in rule 25(2), replace “originating summons” with “originating application”;

(d)

in rule 27, after paragraph (2), insert —

“(2A) In paragraph (2), a reference to an originating summons, in relation to an application for admission referred to in paragraph (1)(a) made on or after 1 January 2023, is a reference to an originating application.”;

(e)

in the following provisions, replace “Legal Profession Act (Cap. 161)” (wherever it appears) with “Legal Profession Act 1966”:

Second Schedule, Form A(1)

Second Schedule, Form A(2)

Second Schedule, Form A(3)

Second Schedule, Form A(4)

Second Schedule, Form B(1), paragraph (a)

Second Schedule, Form B(2)

Second Schedule, Form B(3), paragraph (a)

Second Schedule, Form B(4), paragraph (a)

Second Schedule, Form D(4)

Second Schedule, Form D(5)

Second Schedule, Form E(1)

Second Schedule, Form E(2);

(f)

in the following provisions, replace “Companies Act (Cap. 50)” with “Companies Act 1967”:

Second Schedule, Form A(1), paragraph 7(d)(i)

Second Schedule, Form A(2), paragraph 5(d)(i)

Second Schedule, Form E(1), paragraph 7(d)(i);

(g)

in the following provisions, replace “section 34, 35 or 36 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Cap. 163A)” with “section 59, 60 or 61 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005”:

Second Schedule, Form A(1), paragraph 7(d)(i)

Second Schedule, Form A(2), paragraph 5(d)(i)

Second Schedule, Form E(1), paragraph 7(d)(i);

(h)

in the following provisions, replace “Companies Act” with “Companies Act 1967”:

Second Schedule, Form A(1), paragraph 7(d)(ii)

Second Schedule, Form A(2), paragraph 5(d)(ii)

Second Schedule, Form E(1), paragraph 7(d)(ii);

(i)

in the following provisions, replace “Mental Capacity Act (Cap. 177A)” with “Mental Capacity Act 2008”:

Second Schedule, Form A(1), paragraph 7(i)

Second Schedule, Form A(2), paragraph 5(i)

Second Schedule, Form E(1), paragraph 7(i);

(j)

in the Second Schedule, in Form B(1), replace “section 17(4)(a) and (e) of the Legal Profession Act” with “section 17(4)(a) and (e) of the Legal Profession Act 1966”;

(k)

in the following provisions, replace “provisions of the Legal Profession Act” with “provisions of the Legal Profession Act 1966”:

Second Schedule, Form B(1)

Second Schedule, Form B(3); and

(l)

in the Second Schedule, in Form B(2), replace “section 17(4)(e) of the Legal Profession Act” with “section 17(4)(e) of the Legal Profession Act 1966”.

[G.N. Nos. S 131/2012; S 303/2013; S 264/2014; S 711/2014; S 824/2014; S 135/2015; S 1055/2020; S 1093/2020; S 804/2021; S 20/2022]

Made on 21 December 2022.

LUCIEN WONG

Chairperson,
Singapore Institute of Legal Education.

[SILE/2022/2/ADM; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2020/11 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 185 of the Legal Profession Act 1966).

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