Legal Profession (Qualified Persons) (Amendment) Rules 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 12 Jan 2022

No. S 21

Legal Profession Act 1966

Legal Profession
(Qualified Persons)
(Amendment) Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the Legal Profession Act 1966, the Minister for Law, after consulting the Board of Directors of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Legal Profession (Qualified Persons) (Amendment) Rules 2022 and come into operation on 14 January 2022.

Amendment of rule 15A

2. Rule 15A(1) of the Legal Profession (Qualified Persons) Rules (R 15) is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (i) of sub‑paragraph (a) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(i)	as a Judicial Service Officer or a Legal Service Officer (or both); or”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “a Legal Service Officer” in sub‑paragraph (c) and substituting the words “a Judicial Service Officer or a Legal Service Officer (or both)”.

[G.N. Nos. S 348/2003; S 145/2004; S 493/2005; S 217/2006; S 587/2006; S 187/2008; S 331/2009; S 243/2011; S 290/2014; S 492/2015; S 602/2015; S 354/2016; S 515/2017; S 677/2017; S 439/2020]

Made on 11 January 2022.

LAI WEI LIN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 32/006/041; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2020/4 Vol. 1]

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

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