Legal Profession (Law Corporation) (Amendment) Rules 2006

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 08 Dec 2006

No. S 655

Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161)

Legal Profession
(Law Corporation) (Amendment)
Rules 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 81N of the Legal Profession Act, the Minister for Law, after consulting the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Law Corporation) (Amendment) Rules 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2007.

Amendment of rule 5

2. Rule 5 of the Legal Profession (Law Corporation) Rules (R 21) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by deleting the words “Form 6” and substituting the words “Form 4”.

Amendment of rule 7

3. Rule 7 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “all” in paragraph (a); and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)	its registered office and the address of every branch office; and”.

Miscellaneous amendments

4. The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after the words “law firm” wherever they appear in the following provisions, the words “or limited liability law partnership”:

Rule 6(1) and rule 7(c) of the Schedule.

Made this 8th day of December 2006.

CHAN LAI FUNG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW06/005/038 Vol. 2; AG/LEG/SL/161/2002/1 Vol. 3]

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

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