Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) (Amendment) Rules 2001

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 27 Sep 2001

No. S 466

Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161)

Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) (Amendment) Rules 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 72(1) of the Legal Profession Act, the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, with the approval of the Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) (Amendment) Rules 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2001.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2(1) of the Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) Rules (R 8) is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “solicitors” in the definition of “solicitor”, the words “, a law corporation and a Joint Law Venture”.

Made this 5th day of September 2001.

PALAKRISHNAN

President,
Council of the Law Society of
Singapore.

[LS/44/2000/YD/jl; AG/LEG/SL/161/97/2 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 131 of the Legal Profession Act).

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