Legal Profession (Law Practice Entities) (Amendment) Rules 2020

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 22 Dec 2020

No. S 1052

Legal Profession Act

(CHAPTER 161)

Legal Profession
(Law Practice Entities)
(Amendment) Rules 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 136, 150, 166 and 184 of the Legal Profession Act, the Minister for Law makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Legal Profession (Law Practice Entities) (Amendment) Rules 2020 and come into operation on 2 January 2021.

Miscellaneous amendments

2. The Legal Profession (Law Practice Entities) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 699/2015) are amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “in the Court of Appeal” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “in the Court of Appeal or the Appellate Division of the High Court”:

Rule 52(3)(b) and (5)(b)

Rule 57(2)(b) and (4)(b)

Rule 59(6)(b) and (8)(b); and

(b)

by deleting the words “or the Court of Appeal” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “the Court of Appeal or the Appellate Division of the High Court”:

Rule 52(5)(a), (b) and (c)

Rule 57(4)(a), (b) and (c)

Rule 59(8)(a), (b) and (c).

[G.N. No. S 480/2018]

Made on 9 December 2020.

LAI WEI LIN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 06/015/001; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2020/12 Vol. 1]

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

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