Legal Profession (Regulated Individuals) (Amendment) Rules 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Mar 2022

No. S 256

Legal Profession Act 1966

Legal Profession
(Regulated Individuals)
(Amendment) Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 36M of the Legal Profession Act 1966, the Minister for Law makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Legal Profession (Regulated Individuals) (Amendment) Rules 2022 and come into operation on 1 April 2022.

Amendment of rule 14

2. In rule 14(1)(c) of the Legal Profession (Regulated Individuals) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 701/2015) —

(a)

in sub-paragraph (i), after “relevant proceedings”, insert “, or in any proceedings that are preliminary to any relevant proceedings”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (ii), after “relevant appeal”, insert “, or in any proceedings that are preliminary to any relevant appeal”;

(c)

replace sub-paragraph (iii) with —

“(iii)

represent any party to —

(A)	any relevant proceedings or relevant appeal in any matter concerning those proceedings or that appeal, as the case may be; or
(B)	any proceedings that are preliminary to any relevant proceedings or relevant appeal in any matter concerning those preliminary proceedings;”; and

(d)

in sub-paragraph (iv), replace “or relevant appeal” with “, any relevant appeal, or any proceedings that are preliminary to any relevant proceedings or relevant appeal”.

[G.N. Nos. S 629/2016; S 516/2017; S 1053/2020]

Made on 30 March 2022.

LAI WEI LIN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 06/015/001/ V14; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2020/13 Vol. 1]

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

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